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Truth Comforts the Suffering

BlogAugust 10, 20239Views0Likes0Comments
But Truth is a Person, and that is the key difference in facing suffering from a Christian perspective. Our world is filled with suffering. I was telling a story of my days as a police officer and my struggles (to this day) in dealing with the suffering of children. I was almost suspended from duty one…

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He Saw With His Own Eyes

BlogAugust 9, 202313Views0Likes1Comment
Ask any police officer or investigator and they will tell you having an eyewitness to an event is great, and not so great. The reason is eyewitnesses are notorious for filtering what they see through what they think they remember. So, we were trained on how to weed out what they thought they saw from…

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Tell Me HOW it Works!

BlogAugust 8, 202317Views0Likes1Comment
"But, how does it work?” That was the question burning in my mind as a young, curious, typical pre-teen boy. So, I did what any normal kid would do. I took the clock apart! Still didn’t get my question answered because I didn’t understand the gears and spring system concept, and the clock never worked…

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To Be Pitied

BlogAugust 7, 20237Views0Likes0Comments
"For pity's sake," a phrase I heard my grandmother used and the context was a conversation about a man who just couldn't seem to stop making trouble for himself. She had tried and tried again to help this man stop abusing himself, but he refused even "for pity's sake." But even St. Paul understood this concept…

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Truly Marvelous

BlogAugust 2, 20239Views0Likes0Comments
It's the second day of the Dormition Fast! The wisdom of the fasting disciplines of the Church is meant to reinforce the reality that unless the faith is holistically practiced, that is it affects every aspect of your person, the real danger of compartmentalization exists! One aspect of Orthodoxy that first caught my attention was this…

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It Is Not You Who Speaks

BlogAugust 1, 20239Views0Likes0Comments
Welcome to August and the first day of the Dormition Fast. Let us not neglect the wisdom of the Faith as we prepare for this Great Feast! "I wish I had said this!" That's what I said to myself after a particularly difficult conversation with a friend over a very sensitive subject. Have you ever had…

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