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Why is change so hard?

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I’m a bad flosser. I just got back from my dental checkup with my head hanging in shame again.  Every time I leave, I swear I’ll do better. Worse yet, last time we left I bragged to my wife how on our next visit the dentist would look at my teeth and say ‘I can’t [...]

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Lone Rangers

I grabbed a late night bite with Mr. Broken-but-usable JD yesterday.  The jerk called me a lone ranger. About fifteen years ago when I first entered the doors of a church I was called a lone ranger as well. Trying to not look stupid, I rarely talked to anybody about my spiritual journey.  On my [...]

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Short story time…

Deconstruct this. You’re in a large room hanging out with a bunch of people. They don’t appear familiar but you’re having a great time. Someone enters the room and begins the gathering. Everyone in the room takes turns sharing, mostly meandering about their past sins and tragic mistakes. This scene of friendly chatter followed by [...]

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Broken II – Captive

Why have you brought me here? Have I not been mocked enough? I’ve seen the way they look at me Must they judge me here for all eternity? I’ve already served my time on earth. I’ve been your living example of what not to do a perpetrator, a deceiver, a subhuman creature giving in to [...]

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Broken I – Repulsive

Think of the most violent, horrific, and inhumane act you can imagine. I can’t quite say the words, but you know the ones. I’ve done them. Repeatedly. People look at me in disgust. But it’s really love in excess, maybe misdirected. What can I do, when my love comes out the wrong way? When it’s [...]

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Confessions

More random confessions… I’ve got a number of’em. I haven’t really watched television in years, but suddenly started watching a ridiculous amount of Battlestar Galactica, almost through three seasons in three weeks, yet I maintain that way I’m too busy these days. Whenever someone ends a prayer with “Amen”, I can’t help but smile and [...]

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Confessions…

- When I go to starbucks, I’m so cheap, I always order a venti for value, then put it in the fridge and slowly drink it over three days – I’ve recently began watching old episodes of Party of Five – I never talk about being in anyway affiliated with the emergent church because I [...]

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Linkaroos…

My latest somewhat auto-generated and random links of the past week. Salon.com Life | What every freelancer should know – Welcome to the Distillery District – Global Food Crisis (washingtonpost.com) – Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme – PC World – Top 50 Tech Visionaries – Teachers without Borders – a compass for worldwide [...]

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