Category Archives: different faiths
Living Faith
“Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let thy gifts to us be blessed.” Every Sunday at family dinner with my in-laws, I’ve been saying this prayer along with everyone else before we eat. A couple of days ago, it … Continue reading
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Crossroads
*cue Bone Thugs-n-Harmony music* I’ve discerned that I need to take a break from religious reading for awhile. I don’t think I’ve learned all that I can from religious books; but I have some questions that I need to answer … Continue reading
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Groundless
During Meeting for Worship, I offered up to God the following prayer: Lord, I feel like I’m a fish out of water, flopping around on the shore. Please help me flop back towards your Living Waters instead of further inland. … Continue reading
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Hope
I had a wonderful conversation with my mother-in-law on Friday, as she was driving me to my post-op appointment. Some background is necessary to appreciate how wonderful this conversation was for me: my mother-in-law is a fundamentalist, Evangelical Christian who … Continue reading
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“Listening to the Light”
I ended up finishing Jim Pym’s “Listening to the Light” book yesterday. I wasn’t intending to read it quite so quickly, but Rob wanted to play a computer game for a bit; so I decided to spend my time reading … Continue reading
The Danger of Christian Fiction (and what reading it taught me)
As our first book exchange, Rob’s sister gave me Lori Wick’s “Pretense” and I gave her Michael J. Arlen’s “Passage to Ararat”. While I was sick last week (I’m still sick, but feeling coherent enough to write today… though by … Continue reading
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To Pray Without Ceasing
I went into the weekend unsure of what God was calling me to do. I knew that my leading was to spend a weekend with Rob’s sister (who I’ll refer to as C from now on) and her husband (D), … Continue reading
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Following the Leading
I’m about to get ready to go to my sister-in-law’s for the weekend, as a result of a leading (see earlier posts titled “Leadings”) I had a couple of weeks ago. I am nervous. I’m trying to relax and trust … Continue reading
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That of God
I received a phone call this morning from my stepsister, who was calling to respond to an IM I sent her about a week ago asking if she’d gotten my email. It turns out she hadn’t. Temptation rose high in … Continue reading
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Convergent Friends
A couple of months ago, I joined the Convergent Friends mailing list (for information, click here). I recently received an email from Kevin Roberts of Ohio Yearly Meeting that included the following: None of the branches retain the original witness, … Continue reading
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