We are already a month in a new year. Hard to believe isn’t it? New Year’s resolutions have already slipped our minds, and our path of good intentions has already been blocked. At this point the words of my old coach come to  mind. “Step it up a notch.” He would remind us not to…

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Christ … will appear a second time, … but to save those who are eagerly waiting on him. — Hebrews 9:28. “Waiting on Jesus” sounds like a gospel tune, but as I contemplate the verse in Hebrews I ask, “What am I supposed to do while I’m waiting?” I’ve spent a lot of time in waiting…

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New Years brought me a lesson. Learn to use what you got. I have had in the last year arthritic flares in my joints. They started getting worse this fall, and I am being treated, but when they do happen the joint is useless for a while. Well, right about the time I resolved to…

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How do I know my youth is all spent? My get up and go has got up and went. — Pete Seeger. This lyric is also attributed to an elderly nun and an anonymous newspaper writer, but Pete will do. New Years played tricks with me this year. It came on a Saturday so it didn’t…

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