A wise man recently told me the secret to overcoming feelings of rejection. He said something like this: “Always know that you have something valuable to give and you will not feel rejected. If you had a stack of one hundred dollar bills to give away you would not care if someone did not want to talk to you, you would just go to the next person.
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What to Do When Life Hurts
Here is the simple outline of my message on Lamentations 3… “What to Do When Life Hurts.” A number of people have asked for the outline. I hope it nudges you closer to Jesus if you are going through any heartache.
God Bless You;
Ken
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Taste and See
We live in downtown Flint, Michigan. It’s really not the kind of place where folks chat over the backyard fence and swap garden produce and gossip. On the street in downtown Flint, people don’t usually speak to you until you speak to them. Sometimes they don’t speak to you even when you do speak to them. Sometimes what people say when they do speak to you makes you wish you hadn’t spoken to them. But sometimes the sun of humanity breaks through the clouds of anonymity even here in Flint. That happened this week.
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Cabbage Heads
A few years ago I worked with a pair of brothers in Ohio named Denny and Glenn Allen. They were great guys, farm boys. Best of the best. Just your fine, salt-of-the-earth types. They were talented men just full of horse sense like farm boys tend to be and they were my friends. Both of them made major contributions to my life. I hope I have to theirs too although it’s been about eight years since we worked together.
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Elmer and Esther Brandon
Grace and Mercy are such attractive qualities when you experience them first hand. I’m glad I don’t have to tell you all the foolish and sinful things I have done in my lifetime. I will say they are many and dark and they make the message of the cross very sweet to me.
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An Aroma Redolent with Life
A few weeks ago I went out for a nice long, slow run on a Saturday morning. I think everyone else in the city was sleeping in so I had the streets mostly to myself. We have had record rainfall in our part of the Mitten State so the grass and growing things are lush. There was a beautiful fragrance of life in the morning air. Lilacs were in bloom as I ran along the margin of a large estate. The moisture of morning and a slight breeze scented the air with pine at one point in the run.
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