Tag: God’s Grace
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The True Bridegroom:
An Unconditional Passion The Scent of Cinnamon and the Open Sky: When I sat down to publish Part One of my hometown memory series last night, the sheer sensory weight of that 1985 morning at Otsiningo Park completely flooded my room. I could smell the coffee dripping at 6:00 AM, taste the warm cinnamon buns…
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The Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally:
The Day the Security Ropes Parted for the Tucker Inn on Wheels (Part 1) An Early August Morning on the Front Porch, to the Tucker Inn on Wheels. It was a very early morning in early August that the whole household was awake, the coffee pot was dripping, cinnamon buns were in the oven baking.…
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Part 4–The Sand Dollar
The Message Left on the Shoreline Hey friend! So far on this creation trail, we have discovered the Creator’s fingerprint inside our kitchen glass, over our own chest, and the deep soil of our gardens. Today we are taking a slow unhurried walk down the shoreline to pick up one of the most magnificent, delicate…
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The Currency of Chaos:
Why I Stepped Off the Algorithm’s Edge Early this morning after saying goodbye, and good luck to my granddaughter as she and family left for an early morning girls’ softball double header, with a fresh cup of morning coffee and in the quiet of what promised to be the picture of a peaceful Sunday morning.…
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Part 3: The Beautiful Struggle
Darkness, Seeds, and the Delivery Room Hey friend! In our first two stops along this trail, we looked at the kitchen glass and the literal bones protecting our chest to find the Creator’s signature. Today we are stepping outside into the garden soil and then stepping straight into the intensity of the delivery room, to…
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The Code in the Sand–Episode 7
A Basket Full of Potpourri and the Grocery Store Train The corporate religious machines of this world love to preach a rigid, solemn lifestyle when a family is hit by a severe medical crisis. They want you to lock your joy away in a sterile cabinet, speak in hushed whispers and let the machinery of…
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The Code in the Sand–Episode 6
The White Gloves, The Hidden Tear, and The Medicine of the Soil The clinical systems of this world are incredibly rigid. They look at a human soul through the cold lens of a medical chart, prescribing protocols, counting limitations, and treating severe trauma with a sterile, procedural distance. But when a human spirit falls into…
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The Code in the Sand–The Wine Thread
From Abraham’s Table to Calvary’s Cup There is a golden thread of absolute restoration wove throughout the scriptures that the high-anxiety systems of man-made religion have completely missed. It is a story of a cosmic trade–a spectacular exchange where the Creator took the bitter, sour elements of our human suffering and handed us back a…
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The Code in the Sand–Episode 5
The Passing of the Ruby, the 53-Years Seal, and the Nurse’s Benediction The systems of this world love to treat the end of a physical life as cold, sterile, and terrifying defeat. They use the vocabulary of panic and the fear of death to keep human soul’s small and trembling. But inside the sanctuary of…
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Birthday by the Sea
The Structure is Finished: Announcing Shore & Sand Co. The scaffolding is down and the doors are officially open. Today marks the birthday of Shore & Sand Co–my digital sanctuary shaped by forty-three years of God Winks, shoreline symbolism. and quiet ways a journey reveals itself. Shore & Sand Co began long before this website…
