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Here's the Thing...
The thing is, I'll turn fifty-two next month, so I've been having to deal with the sudden realization that my life is almost half over. It's caused me to wonder things like:
WWJD — What Would Jesus Do?
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I've always had a little trouble with this trite little saying, because it just seems kinda cheap to me. It feels cheap; and shallow, like too many other modern evangelical sloganisms.
I'm Slow
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I’m slow.
I make others wait.
Possibility Does Not Inform Reality
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If something is conceivably possible, must it therefore eventually occur?
Three Days Before [My Dad's Death]
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O God,
Who has been my rock?
Who has been my anchor?
Who has been my guide?
Is it not You, O Lord?
My pride has at times
Seen no limits.
I have prided myself even in my own humility.
A disgrace, I say! Yet
You have not forsaken me,
Nor cast me aside.
Fall
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The smattering of rain on my tin roof above me,
Flurries of Fall leaves swirling across the ground,
The chilled, dank wind blowing in out of a nondescript, gray overcast.
The Big Fizzle... Or Not!
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So, here I am now.
Carl on Illacme socal
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As I read a news article about the discovery of a new species of millipede here,
The Face of God
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And when I saw Him for the first time
He looked to me to be a friend.
His gaze upon me felt like sunshine
piercing through the icy wind:
the wind of my soul and its great plans
to make a mark upon this world,