Essays

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Worldly Perfection Is Highly Overrated

The world has a strange love affair with perfection. Perfect bodies. Perfect homes. Perfect marriages. Perfect children. Perfect résumés. Perfect photographs. Perfect opinions. Perfect spiritual language. Perfect smiles concealing perfectly

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Worldly Perfection Is Highly Overrated

The world has a strange love affair with perfection. Perfect bodies. Perfect homes. Perfect marriages. Perfect children. Perfect résumés. Perfect photographs. Perfect opinions. Perfect spiritual language. Perfect smiles concealing perfectly

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Open the Floodgates

There are times when water behind a dam reaches a critical level. It has gathered quietly, drop by drop, until containment is no longer the wisest choice. The water is

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Would I Change Anything?

A friend recently asked me a simple question: “Do you have any regrets in your life, anything you would go back and change?” At one time, I might have needed

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Maybe.  Maybe not.

There is an old story about a farmer whose horse ran away. His neighbors came to him with sympathy and said, “That is terrible. What awful luck.” The farmer said,

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Two Cloths, One Thread

Guilt and shame are like two cloths woven from the same thread. They may look different when we wear them, and they may feel different against the skin, but they

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