Category: Life Lessons
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Living in the Flow: A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Divine Love
Inspired by The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr A Gentle Question What would change in your lifeif you stopped trying to “get it right”…and instead learned to live in the flow of love that is already holding you? That question has been sitting with me. I can only read a couple of pages at a…
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The Courage to Stay Open: Lessons from the Spirit’s Movement
From The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr I can only read a couple of pages a day in The Divine Dance. Not because it is difficult to understand—but because it is too revealing. It slows me down. It confirms things I have sensed for years but never quite had the words to express. Today, two…
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Vulnerable to the Spirit: Living in the Flow of Life and Love
“The work of the Spirit to keep you growing is to keep you vulnerable to life and love. The major metaphors for the Spirit are always dynamic, energetic, and moving: elusive wind, descending dove, falling fire, and flowing water. Spirit-led people never stop growing and changing and recognizing the new moment of opportunity.”— Richard Rohr,…
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🌿 Trust — The Bridge We Choose to Walk
For the Curious Pilgrim, trust is not naïve certainty; it is a decision to step forward without having the whole map. It is: Trust grows slowly. It is tested by time, truth, and consistency. 👉 A pilgrim learns: Trust is not blind—it is earned light in the midst of partial darkness. ❤️ Love — The…
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“From a Distance We Judge… Up Close We Learn to Love”
Judging from a Distance In business communications, we are taught that we make three judgments when meeting someone: Before we know their story…Before we understand their pain…Before we see their heart… We decide who they are. And sadly, this doesn’t stop at the church door. ⛪ When Faith Becomes Judgment During my years in the…
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🌾 The Curious Pilgrim
From Dick Tracy to Smartphones: Living Faithfully in a Changing World Introduction: When the Impossible Becomes Ordinary When I was a child growing up on a farm in rural Mississippi, our connection to the outside world came through the Grit newspaper. Each week, it brought stories, ideas, and a glimpse of life beyond our fields.…
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What Is Love, Really? A Journey Beyond Romance
✍️ Introduction: Learning Love Without a Map I did not start dating until my senior year in high school. It wasn’t that I wasn’t curious—I was. But I was not driven the way some young men my age seemed to be. While others were pairing off, I was more interested in learning, observing, and trying…
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🌅 Curious Pilgrim – Part 3: Beyond the Label
Following Jesus in a Wider World There was a time when my faith came neatly packaged. At Bible college, I was taught to see Scripture through a clear and structured lens: It was simple. Ordered. Certain. And for a while, it worked. But life has a way of asking questions that outlines cannot answer. 🌿…
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🌄 Curious Pilgrim — Part 2
God Is Love: A Different Starting Point A Reflection on Holiness, Love, and the God I Was Taught The God I Was Taught In Systematic Theology and Bible Ethics at Free Will Baptist Bible College, I was taught about the attributes of God. God is: And beyond those: But among all these attributes, one stood…
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When Brutality Breaks Through: A Lesson I Was Not Ready For
There are moments in life when something we read does not simply inform us—it shakes us. When I was a student at Free Will Baptist Bible College, Dr. Simpson assigned each of us a book to read for English Composition. Because I was from Mississippi, she suggested I read Sanctuary by William Faulkner. At seventeen,…
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