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Life Below DingleBurn: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home-Wife
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Further up and Further in.". Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Confessions of a Stay-at-Home-Wife. Dale and I don't have kids yet (God's choice, not ours). Consequently we have had the standard amount of frustration and sadness and hoping and grieving. But a hidden side-affect of infertility has recently been coming to a boil in my heart and this morning it hit 212°. They seem to ask. "Oh, you teach watercolor? They exult, relieved. "Great! At least that's something,. And suddenly my existence is valid again....
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Life Below DingleBurn: He said, "abide in the vine," not in the Apple.
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Further up and Further in.". Friday, January 24, 2014. He said, "abide in the vine," not in the Apple. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me." John 15:4. Meno; a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy): - abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for) x thine own. Like in the real world? How do I walk them out in shoe leather? I have four sons!
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Life Below DingleBurn: Commentary on John 15 in the style of Charles Dickens, right-honorable influencer of all current literary endeavors.
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Further up and Further in.". Thursday, February 20, 2014. Commentary on John 15 in the style of Charles Dickens, right-honorable influencer of all current literary endeavors. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you." John 15:12. This is all very well as a platitude on a plaque hung over the kitchen sink or in the bathroom to remind the children what actions they are expected to mimic during the day, but what on earth does it mean. This led me instantly to a second list...
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Life Below DingleBurn: Sore Thumb Christianity
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Further up and Further in.". Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Do you realize that, having signed up for this Christianity thing, we belong to an invisible kingdom with an invisible King, wearing invisible armor to fight an (usually) invisible foe? If we actually do. What Jesus says to do (boiled down: love Him, and the rest of His children), we shall be as glaringly obvious as salt, as light, as Manhattan on Mt. Everest! Christianity is a faith of paradoxes: live like a sacrifice ( Rom. 12:1. But lately adherenc...
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Life Below DingleBurn: The Gospel According To.....
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Further up and Further in.". Saturday, January 18, 2014. The Gospel According To. How many of you, growing up watching The Little Mermaid. Are now in your thirties, have the care of small children, and have changed your glowing opinion about the sea-shelled Ariel? Do you find yourself saying, "No Susie, we're not watching that; you've got all the example of selfishness, disrespect and disobedience in your own little sin nature you could possibly need- you don't need help.". Self-absorbed, can't imagine.
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Life Below DingleBurn: Crying Over Catholics
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Further up and Further in.". Thursday, November 14, 2013. Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me! Claudio said that to Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing. God, proud as any Arabian pony moving through her dance. Reality reveals I am as much a tripping toddler as anyone, perhaps more so for having been so certain I was "all growed up" and the talk of the town, the girl with the best little bonnet in the Easter Parade. Of sexual purity, before and after marriage. No Evangelical explanations in my e...
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Life Below DingleBurn: Master of the Metaphor
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Further up and Further in.". Wednesday, November 6, 2013. Master of the Metaphor. 1 A figure of speach in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. 2 A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract. This is surely a kindness of God, knowing as He does that our finite minds cannot fathom Him. Doors we can grasp! Vines we can comprehend! If you discover other "Jesus Metaphors" in your readings, or have a...