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    Stranded with Flip Flops – A Case for a Generalist

    Grizzly Adams and His Tow Truck It was a divine disruption I didn’t have time for.  And it changed my life, forever. This unexpected encounter began over a blown-out tire on the way home from an early Wild at Heart event. At the time, one of my buddies directed the resource center and I directed...

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    Remembering

    I was amazed. God had done so much. Yet what amazed me even more was this: God had done so much that I had already forgotten. Holy Spirit had prompted me to carve out two hours to sit and soak in our family pictures from 2013.  As I did, my heart was literally revived, remembering...

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    Exposure and Surrender

    No wonder the Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the Wild Goose; to follow him is to invariably be led on an adventure we would mostly never choose on our own. Recently, he took a wild, maddening turn in front of me through a great friend’s trip to the ER (thank you, Jon). In the...

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    Off the Grid

    It was one the best weekends I can remember having in quite a while. And I am convinced this is the reason: I turned off the smart phone and went off the grid for two days. I was available to three people: my wife and my two kids.  My world shrunk, if only for moments....

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    Be There – On Parenting the Heart

    Much of the time I blow it.  But these past few months I’ve been focused on being present and engaged with my kids, and my wife, at the expense of so many other things… Teaching Abigail how to make beaded necklaces and sew a button Shooting bows, laser tag, picnics at a hidden lake Teaching...

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