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I am sure that most of the men who read this blog have had some quality time with family during this holiday season. I wonder how it has gone for each of you? We always joke about our family relationships during our wildman gatherings. This joking is really a reflection on the stress and even the pain…
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Today rather than thoughts from a book for a devotional , I just want to share a thought that came to me. On cold winter nights we gradually let the fire die before we go to bed so we don’t get too hot during the night. It use to be when I got up in…
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A blessed Christmas! It may not see that this devotional is appropriate for Christmas but perhaps it is since most of us will be with relatives and reviewing past experiences. Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book Finding Our Way Home Today’s devotional is on looking back. As we do that we begin to see patterns. Yesterday’s roles get…
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Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home In our human relationships we see a mirror of God who is divinely relational. We instinctively reach out to build families and friendships because” we have God’s joy in our blood.” If it were not for God’s love we would be forever stuck in the vicious…
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Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home There is a rhythm to life of venturing out in an unpredictable world, being footloose, and then coming home to safety and comfort. When we try to insulate ourselves with a predictable life, our plans invariably fail because life is not predictable.. We cannot know what…
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Devotions from Mark McMinn at Finding Our Way Home Each of us has a story to explain where we have been and where we are going. We are making sense of things, looking at the past in light of the present and the present it light of the past. Intuitively, we know we are crafted…
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Devotions from Just Betweeen Us magazine on envy Envy is rooted in basic discontent with ourselves and is often expressed through jealousy over someone else’s opportunity. Each of us is most susceptible to envy in the areas in which we feel most vulnerable or weak. If we are not at peace with our identity and…
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As a young man, I faced a lot of challenges learning to integrate my heart with my head. In fact, it was probably one of the most difficult aspects of growing up and maturing. I simply had really difficult time clearly expressing what I was feeling. And in my later years I became more and…
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Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, “Finding Our Way Home” He speaks of Home as the place we all seek-a place of secure love, known most fully in the embrace of God. We see home in some relationships, when there is compassion, trust, honesty, with places of deep safety and comfort that reflect God’s goodness. God…
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Devotions from Just Between US magazine on gratitude Life itself is an incredible gift and we often forget that. In our society there is a hunger for more and more and we have a hard time appreciating all we do have. Gratitude is to be a way of life we are to cherish what we’ve…