Random Thoughts Along the Way

To See, Or Not To See

6/23/2025

I always assumed that being blind would be like if I closed my eyes or put something over them.

I thought blindness would be nothing but darkness. Like having the lights out.
At night.
All the time.

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I've been playing a puzzle game on my phone lately, one where you have to slide pieces around each other in an effort to maneuver each piece to its color-coded exit spot. The more pieces you remove from the board, the easier it gets to clear the board.

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Kid Stuff

1/30/2025

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In an effort to be more ecologically responsible, I have been looking for ways to reduce the amount of plastic I purchase and then consequently discard. One discovery I made was a powdered dishsoap.
The website shows videos of happy people using their product, creating a lovely foamy lather by sprinkling this powder onto a wet sponge, and washing their dishes. Cool.
I considered this for a minute before I was hit with a memory from my childhood.

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Divinity of God in Me

8/28/2024

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Psalm 139 tells me I was knit together in my mother’s womb. I always envisioned this to be the weaving of my DNA strands together to create my physical being, like braiding hair. God would weave them in and out of one another to create something that He would then fasten off when I was complete.

But what if God 'knitting me together' was less like putting together a piece of IKEA furniture and more like interweaving my soul with His?

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Love Your Body?

10/3/2023

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I used to think of loving my body in the context of loving how I looked on the outside - to love the parts of me I can see. But what if loving my body can mean something different?

As I looked in the mirror one morning, I noticed how my eyes looked, and then I noticed how they were able to see whatever I looking at.

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Jesus but ...

3/5/2023

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Be like Jesus.

Cool. I can raise the dead?

Don’t be silly. But you can be like Jesus.

Ok, so I can lay hands on people and heal them.

No. Just be like Jesus.

What about walking on water, or calming the storm?

No. And you can't feed thousands of people with five loaves and two fish, either. You just need to be like Jesus.

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Prayer Is Intention

7/30/2022

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I’ve heard mantras like “Let go and let God,” or been encouraged to leave my requests at the cross.

According to these mantras, we enlist God to do a thing - we focus on the outcome. Make this sickness go away. Sell my house. Grant me that job - or a job. That’s putting it in God’s hands, right? Then we are supposed to let go or walk away. We are to pray and then sit back and wait for the miracle, no matter how small.

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Prayer Is Presence

7/23/2022

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I was standing on the earth, connecting with that part of its creator that was imbued into it, thinking about how the earth supports us.

Oftentimes in my life, prayer has been outcome based - asking God to do this, to change that, or take that away. The outcome typically sought had to do with comfort, safety, or convenience - whether my own or someone else’s. And when prayer is based on an outcome, we tend to become focused on that one outcome that we decided is best.

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Finding God ...

9/2/2021

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The Me I Was Before looked for God in the mundane, in the everyday things of life.

One of the mundane things in my life is squeezing a lemon into my water every morning. But I don’t like the seeds floating around in my glass.

One morning, I pondered this activity and found God there in my lemon.

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We have bigger ovens now.

7/21/2021

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Social norms.

They are sneaky little tyrants, dictating to us what is acceptable, and what is not; what we can be proud of and what we should be ashamed of.

They are embedded deeply into our subconscious causing us to behave, dress, even speak in ways and places that they deem appropriate without us even knowing they are there. They whisper ceaslessly in our being, lulling us into compliance.

We don’t question their mandates; they make us believe we are choosing these things for ourselves.

But are we?

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