Tag: faith in real life

Thorns

Thorns of Life

Posted on by Michael Rose
I came across this story while listening to the audiobook version of The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.  It struck me so profoundly I spent the next few kilometres repeating the stunned mantra of “Oh wow… oh wow…”.   I was so moved that I wanted to retell it in my own words to reduce…
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A Bridge or a Treadmill?

Posted on by Michael Rose
Okay, I admit it!  I like retro cartoons – cartoons from my youth.  I like the characters, the zany plots, the animation and the music.  I guess somewhere deep inside me is a 10-year-old boy whose happiest times were watching the likes of Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, and Scooby Doo.  The other day I caught a…
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Lament

Posted on by Michael Rose
There was a tradition in a segment of Psalms referred to as the lament psalms. It was the pouring out of one’s grief with all its ugliness to God. It was often in response to great loss, death, war, captivity and often gave voice to great despair and anger. In all the rawness that could…
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I’m Burnt Out on Outrage

Posted on by Michael Rose
I was speaking with a friend today who was expressing indignation at a particularly twisted bit of theology.  It was one of those things one can only shake one’s head, with mouth agape in wonderment, at such profound theological abuse. I found that in reading it, I had no energy to be outraged.  Yes, it…
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The Humility Substitute

Posted on by Michael Rose
We sat across the table from each other, sipping our coffee. He wasted no time. “Mike, the first time we met I would have told you I had perfect doctrine. I wouldn’t have said it that way, but the truth is I thought my doctrine was perfect. For the past 47 years, I have been…
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Christ Climbed Down

Posted on by Michael Rose
Christ Climbed Down Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this Year and ran away to where there were no gilded Christmas trees and no tinsel Christmas trees and…
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