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Breaking the Bonds

I realized, as I looked over the contents of my estate sale, that I have too damn much stuff. I realized how mindlessly I’d been living when I saw everything I still possessed spread out all over the house. There were things I forgot I owned or never used. If I’d...

Take Cover

The cold war was raging when I was in grammar school. We rehearsed hiding under our desks in case a nuclear bomb destroyed everything in sight and irradiated everything else. Yep. Those desks would surely protect us. Then, in geometry class in high school, I jumped at...

Can Fear be Good?

“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” occurs in many places in the Bible. Every time I hear “fear of the Lord” in a sermon, the pastor invariably points out that “fear” means awe and reverence toward God that should draw us closer to Him. It should not make...