Author: Higher Up IDEALS
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Overcoming Gravity
Originally posted on The Roofless Church: Every morning that I don’t have to go to work I go through a battle with gravity. With no alarm and no justification for getting out of the bed, I find myself struggling to get up. It’s always the same thing. First I wake up and notice that it’s…
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This Little Light of Mind
As I said in the video, in all of my years, I have never been able to get myself to conform to the way society tells me I am supposed to be. As a child that meant I was often seen as weird or different. Unlike most of the people, I didn’t follow the crowd.…
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Is It Written?
Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: Is it destiny? After posting my last blog, This Functional Family, I kept thinking about how life plays out. I wondered if I ever had a choice in this role I am playing. I mean, even after all of my resistance, here I am doing what so many said…
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How’d I Get So Rich?
Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: What life is all about! Yesterday when I was on facebook, I saw this post that showed this huge stack of hundred dollar bills that came with a prayer that said that if people wrote the word “Amen” in the comments, then in Jesus’ name, the person would…
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Hate the World, Make It a Better Place
There are whole industries dedicated to minimizing risk, variation, cost, and waste. They fall under the umbrella of what is called “quality control” and when it comes to manufacturing products, I think that there is a brilliance to it that can be applauded. It is so brilliant in fact that many people have integrated the…
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Sometimes Words Aren’t Enough
Originally posted on The Roofless Church: My Bruhdas Ever since we returned from Hawaii, I have been trying to put our experience into the perfect words for this blog. After struggling for weeks, I finally surrendered to the fact that I can’t and embraced that I’ll just have to do the best that I can. …
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Belief as a Contextual Framework for Spiritual Application
A few posts ago, I put up what I called “The Roofless Church’s Statement of Faith“. In some ways what I wrote was an accurate account of how I would express my faith if I was forced to do so for some reason or the other. And in some ways what I said was a…
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What Is Real?
In a facebook discussion, the question, “what is real?” came up. The context was in regard to the reality of idealized experiences or what we actually experience in the the world. We were also discussing how the survival mentality affected one’s experience of reality. The response I came up with is below. Sometimes when these…
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B In Prayer
Today as I was entering into a surprisingly silent Newton Centre, I was surprised to hear from my friend that the entire town was on lockdown as a result of the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Already on campus by the time I was clear on the gravity of…
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The Roofless Church’s Statement of Faith
Today I have to teach a confirmation class about what is called a Statement of Faith. If you are not familiar with what that is, then it is pretty much what it sounds like. I am supposed to help them see how important a statement of faith is and encourage them as they begin writing…
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