Category: witness
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Orange Cream Coca-Cola
I’m sitting in the easy chair drinking an Orange Cream Coca-Cola. I started several theological arguments today. But they are with two people I have never met in real life. The theology in my head is not the theology of my hands. I change diapers, I cook food, and I wash laundry. Sometimes I help…
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The Harvest in Scripture
There always seems to be people harvesting in the scriptures. They harvest wheat, grapes, and olives. Sometimes the fields are ripe and sometimes they are wild. Sometimes the Lord of the vineyard hires workers. But what exactly are the workers harvesting? It doesn’t make sense that some people are the laborers in the field and…
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Weakness
It’s said that a person who cannot choose violence is only weak and that only a person who can choose violence but does not deserves to be called gentle. I have been meditating on my own weaknesses today. My health is average so I can’t claim any significant physical advantage if I were forced to…
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Murdered for Treason
If you are reading my blog you probably already know I am a Mormon. I am also a US citizen in that order. Kind of like the Apostle Paul was a Christian first and a Roman citizen second. And as Paul admitted that he was in no way the equal of Jesus Christ, I admit…
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Perseverating on God
Perseverate:(verb, intransitive, chiefly psychology) To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended. I am on the autism spectrum. One of the things about most of us is that we perseverate on things. Some autistics perseverate on Legos, or trains, or scripts from movies and songs. I…
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Struggle and Gratitude
I have been saying “The struggle is real but so is the gratitude” a lot lately. It is my own phrase though in the end it will probably be misattributed to Aristotle or Confucius. But I’ll spell out what it means to me right now in this moment. The word struggle is deeply tied to…
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The Day After Easter
Reverse Lent is over. Will I live a cleaner more holy life for Jesus or is this just like the New Year’s Resolutions people make and break three days later. I’ve already decided that I’m not actually going to give up beer. I haven’t had THC in weeks hopefully I can stay away from that.…
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12 minutes into Easter
It’s Easter. In Jerusalem it’s probably already morning and the tomb is empty. It’s a little after midnight here. A long time and a long way off from the resurrection of Jesus Christ. My brain is mush. Held together with very modern psych meds. Jesus isn’t going to change that. I wonder if his going…
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Wealth Inequality
Political Rant (you have been warned): Last week the stock market lost something like a trillion dollars in value. Many rich people who are usually preaching to me about the gap between the rich and the poor were clutching their pearls because the gap narrowed and it happened to be their wealth that was more…
Latter Day Sinner 