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How Do I Live a Refining Life, On Purpose?
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What do you mean by “refining life, on purpose” – I get that question from time to time. And I understand why. It’s a bit ambiguous. At core level, it’s about personal development. In a deeper sense, it’s about the personal development of character and the progression of who we are to who we…
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Who Else Feels like a Barren Olive Tree?
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Life has many prosperous seasons. And there are down seasons – no harvest – as my buddy, Scott Sprunger might say. In such times, people might cling to a desperate hope and remembrances of those more abundant times. They might be marked with regret as they spy upon the very top of a tree…
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We Are Not Rocks. We Are Not Islands.
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When I wrote the poem, That Rock, I was drawing upon the two verses that appear below. They both offer a great foundation (pun intended) for how to live in continual recognition that I am nothing without the mercies and grace of God. And a man shall be . . . as the shadow…
