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Under His Wings
Today is a beautiful spring day – a little cool, but a day that makes me so thankful that I live where I live. As I sit at my desk on the lower level of our condo (built on the pasture of the farm where I grew up), I keep looking through the patio doors…
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Learning from Another Mistake
At least I’m trying to learn from my latest mistake. It happened last Thursday. As usual, I went to Messiah to practice the organ for this weekend’s worship service. Mim came along and went to visit a friend who was recovering at home from a recent surgery. When I finished practicing we had a quick…
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How I went from age 50 to age 75 in just a few days
I remember my 50th birthday very well. I was still employed in a traditional job, a manager in the financial systems department of a regional telecommunications corporation. I was using my MBA to obtain a respectable salary, but I wasn’t enjoying the work, and I certainly didn’t feel I was doing anything very worthwhile with…
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Forgiveness Muscles
A little over a week ago, Mim and I and my sister-in-law Bonnie went to a half-day conference on the subject of forgiveness. The title of the conference was “A Time to Forgive.” The speaker was Dr. Robert Enright of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison and founding member of the International Forgiveness…
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Abraham Lincoln – as Mim’s Grandfather remembered him
Last summer Mim spent many days systematically going through boxes and boxes filled with old papers, photos, and books that had belonged to her parents and grandparents. One yellowed newspaper, carefully protected in a waxed paper-like envelope was the Decorah Public Opinion from Decorah, Iowa, dated Wednesday, February 10, 1909. That is the year Abraham…
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What did you do yesterday?
“The Monastic Way,” a monthly brochure written by Joan Chittister, one of my favorite authors, has rejoined my short stack of materials that I pick up to read first thing every morning. This year, Chittister has chosen a single word or a short quote to reflect on every day for a month. “The Monastic Way”…
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The Good Samaritan turns 75
In just a few days, on August 5, 2022, Mim Jacobson will have been accumulating knowledge, wisdom, memories, and all kinds of things for 75 years. In honor of reaching our mid-70s, Mim and I have begun the process of sorting through all our stuff. In one of our boxes in our basement store room,…
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Taking Time to be still and listen for God
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