A former member of the Highland SDA Church writes “Sabbath Thoughts” a couple times a month. These blog posts are meant to draw the reader closer to God and to encourage contemplation of various Christian topics.
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Move On
My co-worker has a little daily challenge devotional and one challenge last week was to go to someone you had a disagreement with and try to make it right. The […]
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Frenemy
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28 ESV). A few weeks […]
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Trumpet Vine
I remember when we first moved into our home, there was a beautiful trumpet vine growing over the shed with big orange blooms cascading down. It almost had a romantic […]
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July 27, 2010
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all” (Psalm 34:19 ESV). July 27, 2010 When I worked for a small non-profit in […]
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I Would Never
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you […]
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If the Shirt Fits
“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14 NKJV). A few months ago, I completed a beginner sewing class […]
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Daily Resolution
It is almost as much a tradition to break New Year’s Resolutions as it is to make them! About 80% of New Year’s resolutions don’t survive past February. I remember, […]
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Mary Did You Know?
I remember a day in the middle of November when I decided to turn on my Christmas music. Ryan jokingly questioned, “Christmas music before Thanksgiving?!” I’m not usually someone who […]
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Veterans Day
“Freedom isn’t free.” The interim rector (pastor) at the Episcopal church I work for said that the week before Veterans Day. I have worked for the same church for almost […]
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Don’t Give Up, Just Quit
Giving up, quitting, and failure are three very different things. I remember the very first essay I ever wrote for a college class. I received a F. It was like […]
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Distracted Driving
Have you ever found yourself driving, coming into perhaps a big city or seeing something unusual ahead like a section of construction or maybe a wreck, and you then turn […]
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When Baths are Traumatic
For probably a year or more now our cat, Princess Margaret, has had what we thought was back pain or arthritis or something wrong with her hip or tail that […]