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What is a Christian?
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Book Review: No Bad Parts Richard C. Schwartz, Vermilion
Internal Family Systems is a very popular psychotherapeutic approach to wholeness. An intriguing and controversial methodology.
Two Nine to Ninety Poems: What it is to be nine & Will we make it to ninety?
Don’t ask me how I started thinking of the nine year old boy emptying his pockets or the running down the clock at the end of life…but I did.
Believe it…or not
What we believe to be true controls our experience of the world. If I believe I can’t swim…this will be proved correct. If I later believe I can swim, I’ll swim. What changed?
Kissing the Feet
I’m always moved by Luke’s account of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet. I feel sure that she had met him before the supper and had received His forgiveness…her response was to find him later and wash and anoint his feet. Her tears a sign of the life changing effect of His forgiveness after years of dislocation and carrying the loneliness of guilt.
The Apple on the Other Tree
Perhaps we all live with apples on the other tree? It could be as mundane as dithering over buying a piece of art…or an intangible apple…as intended in this poem
The Sermon on the Mount – a question?
One verse leapt from the page when I read the Sermon on the Mount for the umpteenth time. Why hadn’t I seen this before?
My Father in Heaven
These days I have a beard and struggle to trim the tash…could do with a lesson from my father in heaven
How to Keep Cool
The UK is experiencing a heat wave. Temps in the shade are the same as body temp…in the sun eggs fry inside the shell, butter turns to a lake, and…well…time to read the poem
Chemistry and Christianity? Three Levels of church, after Level 0.
Level 0 churches…3 levels above you…going up?
Psalm 131 – Psalm for the 21st Century
Psalm 131 caught my attention a while ago - only three verses, but three verses that present a different way of doing life