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aaroncanipe: Jim Alinder Driving through America is the antidote to sentimentality.  Ecclesiastes 2: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:I […]

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfuwVnggIKM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=375] Christian Wiman delivers the commencement address at North Central College in Illinois. It’s disheartening watching peoples’ expressions as the best speech they’ve ever heard flies over their heads. Unfortunately, I probably would have ignored it as a 22-year-old college graduate, too. More unfortunately, in ten years, I’ll probably regret the things I ignored […]

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Jacob Recalls the Fight at Peniel

by John Paisley (Click the author’s name for his biography) Upon that night the others were away – Wives, children, all the troubled world And I was there alone and quiet until he came Unheralded, mysterious. As one awaking from a dream I knew, at first, only that I struggled, then slowly Grew aware of my […]

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