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The movie Inception reminded me that dreams are one of the great forgotten gifts of the Bible.
A good story has more to offer than a warm fuzzy feeling. Consider these other benefits...
Some break rules. Some keep them. Some do both and bear fruit from it.
Sometimes you have to let go of something - maybe even let it die and fall to the earth - before your life can bear righteous fruit.
David has gone to the same camp for the past nine years. He worked his way up the ranks of awards and badges each summer, impressing counselors and cabin mates. He’s a genuinely good kid and was simply doing what his parents taught him. Last year he received the coveted Teepee pendant, a sure indication that as a camper he had a shot at the granddaddy of them all: the Tomahawk Award.
Only one senior is eligible and he had this final summer to do it. [click to continue…]
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I reconnected with an old friend recently via the miracle of internet and email. It had been 30 years since we had last spoken.
Her name is Margaret, but I always called her Madge, and sometimes, Midge. Back in the early 80’s, when we both attended the same college, Madge was the resident Bohemian eccentric avante-garde dance major. She was a deeply spiritual woman, with piercing green eyes and long flowing chestnut brown hair, just like Boticelli’s Venus.
I looked up to her, and loved to make her laugh. There were some good memories.
The other day I noticed her email address listed in a tiny sidebar of the monthly e-alumni update, announcing some theatre production she was involved with. [click to continue…]
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The following review contains no spoilers.
If you plan on seeing the movie Inception, you better show up with your brain fully engaged. This movie makes the plot of the Matrix look like an ABC after school special. Before you go, make peace with the idea that you’re going to have a hard time figuring out what’s happening. And when you leave the theater, you’ll have a hard time remembering the things you didn’t understand while you were watching them.
In other words, this movie plays like a dream. Which makes sense, because the whole movie is about dreaming, and most of it takes place inside the dreams of the people in the story. [click to continue…]
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L.L. here, thinking about one of our premier Network photographers—Kelly Langner Sauer. Not long ago, Kelly occupied two online spaces; her blog and photography sites were separate. But anybody who knows Kelly knows that her words and her images, her life and her camera, move together.
At some point Kelly told the world she was no longer going to try to maintain these parts of herself as separate pieces. She unveiled one beautiful, new, oh-so-Kelly site. I love going there. It was a good decision on her part.
Here at HighCallingBlogs, we’re feeling a little like Kelly these days. [click to continue…]
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“Stop it!” she scolded. The little boy did it again. Turn, turn, turn, went the swivel chair.
“Just stop!” she raised her voice higher this time. He laughed, dark eyes wide open. Turn, turn, turn. His mother gave him a strong shake, jerked his chair towards the table, and stared hard. [click to continue…]
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