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The Quarantine Diaries: Town

I went into town yesterday. I delivered my fanciful handmade soaps to Seaman’s Market, drove through the drive-through at the bank, and then pulled over into an empty parking spot uptown, to choke back tears and call an understanding friend. I looked at the...

The Quarantine Diaries: Normal

There are two terms I am learning to despise.  “The new normal” and “back to normal”.  Personally, I’d love to see these eradicated from our global vocabulary.  I’d love to see us redefine “normal” with what is glorious....

The Quarantine Diaries: Acts and Revival

For as weighty and voluptuous of a moment in history as this is, it seems like an appropriate time to be reading the book of Acts. When the book begins, the disciples had just seen the glory of God manifest in a once-and-for-all, sin-obliterating sacrifice, a...

The Quarantine Diaries: Why I Show My Face

I put my ear to the earth and hear an undercurrent of grumbling spreading like gangrene across my town.  Maybe the globe, I don’t know.  And, personally, I have had quite enough, for one lifetime and even one day, of folks judging motives without asking.  I have...

The Quarantine Diaries: Reversing Eden

Keeping company with the book of Matthew, I read through Jesus’ string of parables (in chapter 13).  I landed on the last one, the one about the dragnet bringing in good and bad fish, at the end of the age, and sorting out the bad fish (the ones that represent...

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