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Twenty-three years ago today, a nurse placed a doppler on my pregnant belly and proclaimed after searching diligently that she “couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat.” The doctor couldn’t when he checked a few moments later. An ultrasound confirmed what we suspected: my 38-week old son (gestation age) no longer had a heartbeat that let us know of his life. And thus began my own personal hell. One…

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Memorizing Joy

I am going to try something new for 2021. When I was a teenager, I participated in the North Carolina Baptist’s Bible Drill program. Each year, we had to demonstrate memory of all the books of the Bible, a number of Bible passages (such as The Great Commission or The Ten Commandments), and we had to memorize something like twenty verses or more. We had to demonstrate that we knew the verses well…

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Playing the Glad Game is Being Grateful

Playing the Glad Game is Being Grateful

As many of you know, I study joy voraciously. In many, if not all, of the books and articles that I read, each author has at least one chapter about how the best way to discover joy is to be grateful. Test me. Read a book on joy and see. For me, that started with One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. That whole book is about discovering eucharisto(to be grateful; to give thanks). It’s a beautiful…

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Putting our 'Stuff' into a Box

Putting our ‘Stuff’ into a Box

I recently had an incredibly strange dream. I was in the process of attempting to stuff a gift-wrapped box into a storage container (or it might have been the back of a truck) that was already over-full when the container tipped and dozens of boxes came crashing down, knocking me down, and burying me underneath. I jolted awake, surprised by the intensity of the dream–how powerful the impact of…

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5 Ways to Sing for Joy . . . Regardless

5 Ways to Sing for Joy . . . Regardless

5 Ways to Sing for Joy. . .Regardless

Pray

Open your mouth

Listen to [worship] music

Attend church

Allow for the presence of the Holy Spirit

Ever since my first son was born still, I have struggled with singing, especially singing for joy. I don’t know about you, but I find it very difficult to find joy when I’m depressed, let alone find my singing voice. We hear about the “sacrifice of praise.” We…

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