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Wash Your Hands!

BlogJuly 23, 2020537Views0Likes0Comments
My dear bride has a hard and fast rule for my two girls: “Wash your hands!” You see, my wife is a trained elementary school educator and part of that training has to do with hygiene. Teaching children to wash their hands before they eat, after they play, and after their potty breaks is all…

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God Will Provide

BlogJuly 22, 2020465Views0Likes0Comments
I’ve heard this all my life “God will provide.” I remember hearing it when me and my brother and my mom were near poverty when I was young, and He did. I remember hearing it when I watched my family go through a shattering crisis, and He did. I remember hearing it again when I…

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Can You Handle the Truth?

BlogJuly 20, 2020443Views0Likes1Comment
I love the scene in "A Few Good Men" when Jack Nicholson's character looks at the military lawyer questioning his leadership of his troops in Guantanamo. It's at a pivotal part of the drama. The commandant, Colonel Jessup, was a rough and tough Marine leader. He was a strong man, and he didn't have any…

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Growing Up Takes Discipline

BlogJuly 17, 2020543Views0Likes0Comments
One of the most difficult realities I’ve had to face as an adult, as a priest, as a husband, and as a father is waking up to the reality of the complexity of each human person I encounter, including myself. This continuous process of discovery has me regularly seeing places of spiritual progress and immaturity…

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Don’t Deceive Yourself!

BlogJuly 16, 2020513Views0Likes0Comments
"That boy is too smart for his own good" as my grandmother would remind me when a certain relative started spouting off about this or that. He seemed to have at least three opinions about everything. Later on she'd tell me that he was "educated beyond his intelligence." Mammaw was a pistol! We humans have always…

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“I Reasoned Like a Child”

BlogJuly 15, 2020509Views0Likes1Comment
"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."  This comes from a Russian anarchist named Mikhail Bakunin who died in 1876. But does the worship of God require a renunciation of liberty and humanity? Well, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that…

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Made Perfect BY Suffering

BlogJuly 13, 2020468Views0Likes0Comments
Our American nation is suffering a time of chaos, fear, anger, and, yes, even the scourge of hatred. And this suffering can lead us to despair. But the message of the Orthodox Christian Faith is that suffering can actually form and shape us into Christ-like persons IF only we wouldn't waste these moments of suffering.…

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Garbage In; Garbage Out!

BlogJuly 10, 2020364Views0Likes0Comments
The old computer coder adage is "Garbage in - Garbage out." It meant that if the computer programmer got his code wrong, then it just stands to reason that the program wouldn't work properly. What is true for computer programming is true for all of life. That's why the Faith teaches us to actively pursue the…

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