I had lunch Friday with an old friend I haven’t been in touch with for about three years. He’s one of the first friends I made in this town after I moved here, and we lived in the same building for 5 years. Far more than just neighbors, we spent 3-4 nights a week together [...]
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Small Victories
Posted in reconciliation, restoration on August 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Question
Posted in reconciliation on June 14, 2007 | 8 Comments »
**No I am not impersonating Dwight when I say “question”.** Hee. Is it better to not confront a person you’ve already forgiven, that has recently come back into your life after a long period of absence, and has never acknowledged or apologized for the hurt they caused? Especially when said person hates confrontation and probably [...]
Wish You Were Here
Posted in doubt, reconciliation on September 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,blue skies from pain.Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell? And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?Cold comfort for change? [...]
Crashing
Posted in reconciliation on August 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I need to know why things are the way they are between us. This awkwardness. This indifference. This avoidance. This pretending nothing happened. Making sure none of our friends know the awfulness that lies between us, unspoken but all said in looks across the room that only we understand. Maybe if I knew the reason [...]
Forgiveness and Stuff
Posted in reconciliation, restoration on April 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As we enter Holy Week, I leave you with the amazing words of another… Corrie Ten Boom. It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual [...]
Gin and Bitterness
Posted in reconciliation on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What I’m listening to: Reindeer Section’s You are My Joy . Don’t get the wrong idea by the title of this post – I’m not a Gin drinker. Actually, I’m not a drinker. But that’s irrelevant for the sake of this post. But I am bitter. Stanley Richards can write about how the two go [...]
The Space Between
Posted in reconciliation on January 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What I’m listening to: Santus Real’s Fight the Tide I remember the first time I heard a Dave Matthews song. It was well before they were mainstream and I was standing in line at the cafeteria and two people I knew were singing: What would you say/If you a monkey on a string/If you a [...]
Avoidance
Posted in reconciliation on January 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What I’m listening to: PFR’s Disappear Why in the world do we thinking by avoiding something the problem will go away? Maybe it’s a situation, a person, a sin we want to oversome. Something in our life that’s a thorn in our side, something that makes life harder than it needs to be. And we [...]
Repair or Replace?
Posted in guarding your heart, reconciliation on November 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
What I’m listening to: Fleming and John’s Delusions of Grandeur I’m running errands over my lunch break today and I’ve got the radio tuned to New Life Live by default – I’m usually listening to The Bridge , a local christian radio station, when I’m driving. Anyway, there was a caller asking about her marriage. [...]
