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A team member who served on our radio team for a number of years loved to go white water rafting. His white water was on the Chattooga River, in South Carolina. He loved to take his youth group on white water kayaking trips and that's where he learned about a river phenomenon called hydraulics.
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I really hate it when a five-year-old makes me feel dumb; especially when it's my grandson. I mean, he didn't mean to make me feel dumb. He didn't know he was making me feel dumb. But he is really smart, and he knows a lot about a lot! Like the solar system. He's got the planets down cold along with all kinds of facts about the universe. Things I either have forgotten or never knew. Another thing our grandson is really mastering is numbers. Man, can he count! He's working on thousands, millions, billions, and his favorite quantity, a google! When it comes to our universe, he's never going to be able to count that high!
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Look up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's (yeah, you said it) it's Superman! Man, when I heard these words on my T.V. as a kid, I was in a T.V. trance for the next half hour. I loved to watch the exploits of the man of steel.
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It was always so much fun when we stuffed all five Hutchcrafts into the car for a long trip. And, of course, we had turf wars in the back seat. You remember that? Especially as our kids became bigger. We had three kids trying to figure out who gets which third or more, of the turf in the back seat. Of course that was only one of our problems.
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Okay, if you've always been skinny, you can just give it up. You're not going to understand what I'm about to say. Okay? But if you've ever been overweight, I think you'll understand this. Once you've been overweight, you always tend to think of yourself as overweight even when you're not any more. I used to weigh 210 pounds. That was pretty big for a guy my size, because I'm not really big. Now, thankfully, I've been able to keep a lot of it off for years. It doesn't matter, I still feel overweight. It's crazy! Others may say you're okay, and the scale might even say you're okay. But there's this voice that keeps whispering, "Overweight!"
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Alcoholics really need to stay away from places that are all about alcohol. Bookaholics need to stay away from bookstores. Like it's dangerous for me to spend time in a bookstore, especially a Christian bookstore.
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When I was in high school - a long time ago - it seemed like girls had to explain if they weren't a virgin. Now they have to explain if they are. Our culture sees virginity as sort of an oddity. Curious. Nice - sort of. Maybe slightly unnatural. A cable news network once posed this question to their viewers: "Why are we so obsessed with virginity?"
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There was a miracle in the wildfire that night on an Indian reservation where we have many dear friends. We watched the news with growing concern last summer - and with intensifying prayer - as the path of that fire's destruction grew steadily. We learned that some of our kind of unofficial "family" there had their church and some loved ones in a town that was surrounded by the flames. And they told us about the miracle.
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It's interesting to find out how we parented our kids, whether you solicited it or not. See, now that our children are parents, they love to tell us what they thought of our parenting skills. Oh, that's fun! Their observations are pretty interesting regarding what my wife and I did that worked and didn't work. Sometimes it's hilarious; I mean like discussing say their perspective on some of our disciplinary tactics. Sometimes it's convicting. Sometimes it's affirming, even touching.
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During the winter it's nice to think about a beach and all that sun. Of course the easiest way to cook yourself on the beach is to be there on a cloudy day. You say, "I don't feel a thing." But let me tell you by experience, the rays are still burning you.
