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The Guy Who Took Care of Donkeys
Week 56 – The Guy Who Took Care of Donkeys 1 Chronicles 22-29 Asking people about first things is one of my favorite things. First car. First memory. First time you watched the sun set. It’s especially fun to get people in a group and go around telling each other about your first job. You
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The Threshing Floor of Grace
Week 55 – The Threshing Floor of Grace 1 Chronicles 21-22 We have no idea what Satan looks like. The Bible calls him a serpent, a dragon, an Accuser, a tempter. Mel Gibson portrayed Satan by having a beautiful actress shave her hair and eyebrows off, subtle maggots crawling in her nose. Unsettling. Androgenous. Beautiful.
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The King and His Very Dangerous Furniture
Week 54 – The King and His Very Dangerous Furniture 1 Chronicles 8-15 (and also 16 and 26) I owned a coffee mug for 23 years that I got for free when I was in seminary. Cobalt blue ceramic, flared at the top, with a handle that fit three fingers perfectly. It was an Insight
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When You Hear Your Name
Week 53 – When You Hear Your Name 1 Chronicles 1-7 Names are wonderful things. Powerful things. Have you ever stopped in a souvenir shop on a road trip and looked for your name on a keychain or a shot glass? Maybe you stopped doing that when you were 11. But even today I will
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Roos on the Rabbit Trail
Week 52 – Roos on the Rabbit Trail Psalm 145 Rabbit trails are wonderful places. Sure, we’re supposed to be chasing the rabbits like good, disciplined hunting dogs, but man is it fun to be running through the underbrush and catch a scent on the wind and take off at a run. Reading the Bible
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The God Who Makes Mountains
Week 51 – The God Who Makes Mountains Psalm 121, 127, 130 Mountains are always beautiful at a distance. Anyone driving west toward the Rockies passes through almost incomprehensibly flat land. From the Llano Estacado of West Texas north through the High Plains of the Panhandles and up through Kansas into Wyoming, the land is
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There are Wonders Yet to See
Week 50 – There are Wonders Yet to See Psalm 107 My brother sent me a text on my birthday that said, “Well, despite superhuman efforts in your youth, you made it to 50.” Perfect brother words. Siblings just know. They know you. Know your secrets. Even if you don’t want them to, they do.
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Chacks and Sizzles in the Polyphony of Praise
Week 49 – Chacks and Sizzles in the Polyphony of Praise Psalms 96-99 My daughter’s favorite bird is the grackle. If you don’t know her, I am sad for you, because she is a sun who brings light and life everywhere she goes. But if you do know her, you are not surprised that she
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The Elixir of Grief and the Joy of Gladness
Week 48 – The Elixir of Grief and the Joy of Gladness Psalm 90 It has been a week around the Scott house. We celebrated my 50th birthday by stuffing our home to comically overflowing with people we love and food and laughter and hugs and stories. It was messy and beautiful and loud and
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Not Knowing and Doing it Anyway
Week 47 – Not Knowing and Doing it Anyway Psalm 86 I’ll just be honest and say that I have been sitting here for an hour staring at a blank screen with my Bible opened to the Psalms and I can’t think of a way to start. Thoughts race through my brain like bats flitting
