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Speaking the Same Language, but Not Communicating

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone where you knew you were both speaking the same language–even the same dialect–but somehow it felt like you were speaking different languages? Where somehow something got lost in mix, and you simply weren’t communicating?

I remember one time being in deep south Texas, near the Louisiana border, and listening to a guy with Cajun influences speaking to his son about “mudding”–driving four-wheelers through the mud. It was the funniest thing to me, because they were both so excited and animated about what they were saying, and they were speaking English, but between the dialect and the lingo I couldn’t understand a word they were saying. I just knew they were happy from the nonverbals they were using.

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Messed-Up People Trying to Figure It Out

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

Ever watch those courtroom dramas on TV or the movies? Or follow real-life courtroom cases?

When the prosecution has a key witness that could seriously damage the case for the accused, or if some small-town joe sues the big corporation for some injustice that was done…the defense attorneys have a favorite strategy: dig for dirt. Look for any damning information about the witness, anything that makes him/her look bad, or dishonest, or whatever, and bring it out in court.

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A Coffee Analogy (from Someone Who Doesn’t Drink Coffee)

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings

For someone who spends so much time in the local coffee hangout, it’s ironic that I don’t drink coffee. (Right now I’m savoring some hot apple-spice tea.)

I have a lot of friends who drink coffee, though. I have one friend who might as well be wearing a cologne called “Eau de Java.” The smell of coffee is all over him, all the time.

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Right Under My Nose (part 2)

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

Sometimes “a-ha” moments can be enlightening and inspiring, like I described a couple of days ago when I said that the seeds of the creative community I have longed for exists in my own family.

But sometimes “a-ha” moments can be a little devastating, too. When you realize how long you’ve gone on with a mindset that constricts your dreams rather than releases them–that can be a little devastating, even while it inspires.

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History, No Matter How You Slice It…And Some Final Thoughts on the Matter (For Now)

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

If you voted–no matter how you voted–you were part of an historic day today.

This election season has been one of the most dramatic I’ve ever witnessed. So many twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat moments, we could all probably use one good stiff drink. Hollywood couldn’t have written it any better.

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Jeesh, I Almost Forgot. It’s Halloween.

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Categories: food for thought, fun, Meanderings (look it up), What the heck was THAT?

The above title is of great personal significance to me because I used to get uber-spooked by this day each year.

Now, listen–I believe in the spirit world, and supernatural things going on all the time that we can’t see. I am fully aware that there are some fringe people who take this day very seriously, and will go do some real witchcraft things in the dark in the woods, and possibly even hurt people. I am aware of the Druid and occult roots of Halloween, and personally I still do not observe it, nor does my family. My son has never really missed trick-or-treating, never had a desire to do it.

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New Ears to Hear

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

I’m going to ramble a bit here, so I hope this post makes sense to other people besides me. 🙂 If not, I’m sorry.

Here’s an interesting phrase Jesus used several times as a coda when he was teaching in parables, and again to all seven of the churches He addressed in Revelation 2-3:

“He who has ears to hear–let him ear.”

This is intriguing because it suggests that even though He is speaking, not everyone will hear or understand what He says. Hearing is not automatic here. And it also suggests that the key to hearing and understanding is that our ear needs to be inclined to hear Him.

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Just a Few of My Friends…

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Categories: fun, link love, Meanderings (look it up)

So as we approach the holidays, we also approach the one-year mark for the Losing My Religion blog. And as we approach that mark, I’m contemplating how blogging has changed and expanded my thinking and indeed my world. Last month, Cindy at Run With It asked us how blogging has changed us. I didn’t respond then, mostly due to time constraints and being generally behind my blog reading. But I guess I’m answering it now: blogging has helped clarify my own journey, sharpened my writing skills, and connected me with a whole range of new friends–people who in some ways think very differently than I do, but who are in other ways quite connected with one another in this journey. I think these emerging relationships are the best part of my blogging experience. (Do you like that I used the word “emerging”?)

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De-Toxing

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Categories: church, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings

Toward the end of yesterday’s post, I inserted this remark:

“…sometimes our personal woundings complicate our emotions, and sometimes we have to unravel that in order to know whether a confrontation is from love or from wounding. And that part has to wait for another post. :)”

Wait no longer.

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