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  • kbaker
    kbaker added a text contribution Jacob Marley
    This story reminds me of "A Christmas Carol" and Jacob Marley's desire to warn Scrooge about his mistakes in life...wonder if this is where Dickens got the idea.....hmmmm Read more »

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  • kbaker
    kbaker added a text contribution The Difficulty of
    Today was one of those days it doen't feel natural to offer praise, though I'm surrounded by things to be thankful for. One of those weird estrogen days when everything negative is swarming in my mind and even though I'm wearing nothing with buttons, it feels like I missed one and am all crooked and disheveled. When my faults, flaws, and failures hold the megaphone and drown out the beauty of the... Read more »

Sep 8

  • kbaker
    kbaker added a link contribution The Pressure of a New Song
    http://bakerquiettime.blogspot.com/2009/06/words-of-wonder.html
    Every day, every week, every series, my assignment is to try to write something new, something fresh that will breathe into people and move them forward in their walk with Christ. For the first few months of this second career I started two years ago, I felt a tremendous amount of pressure. How can I create anything new? Everything's been done. Everything's been said. It's a drop in the ocean of information... Read more »
  • kbaker
    kbaker added a text contribution The "No Fair!" kid in all of us
    A lot of the emotion we see in shopping during the holidays, politics year round, gossip about who should have gotten the promotion, and even watching our kids play sports all comes down to that "Hey, No Fair!" mentality we see in this parable, where we want everything to be equal somehow. I used to think I wasn't like this, that I was one of the few pious who never complained...that is until I discovered,... Read more »