Something wonderful happened to me today at the three-minute traffic light.
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Revelation at a Traffic Light
Author: Drexel Rayford
Drexel has been senior pastor of four churches in Kentucky and Virginia, a psychiatric ward chaplain, denominational bureaucrat, and an erstwhile indie singer/songwriter/story-teller and seeker of authentic human vocation. Currently, Drexel is working at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center in the capacity of The Support Team Network manager, a hospital-based community partnership aimed at nurturing healing communities for discharged patients. He loves kayaking, road cycling, hiking, and all kinds of photography, but he loves his wife Vicki and blended family of three adult children more. He holds a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Religion and a pastoral counseling certificate from the University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry.
Pilgrim Turtle did not know that it was pushed along by the gentle force of global gravity pulling 1800 square miles of drainage across the earth, and yet, it expertly navigated the move.
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Skimming Across the Surface
“The value of my life is not dependent upon the degree to which I realize it.” – James Finley
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Even My Underwear is Falling off!
Oh, how blithely I’ve said it over the years, “You have value beyond what you do! Your worth isn’t rooted in your accomplishments, or lack thereof. You’re loved above and beyond your list of credentials, beautiful beyond the appearance of your body, valuable beyond what you contribute to the company!” I still believe that, but now I discover that I’m a little thin on the skill to live out that wisdom.
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Mysteries Too Marvelous
You might think I’m crazy, but sometimes we walk into mysteries too marvelous for our reasoning.
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A Life Well-Planned – Really?
“The rewards of a life well-planned.” Whoever wrote that commercial hasn’t made it to 30 yet.
It didn’t matter to me at all what accent carried the phrase to my ears, “Well, it looks like we got it all!”
I never thought I’d envy someone the act of thoughtless swallowing, but then, I never thought I’d have a robot plunge down my throat with a 3-D camera . .
Yup. That’s me about 43 years and 15 pounds ago. At the time, I lived in Salzburg, Austria and on this particular day, some friends and I had gone for a walk and a picnic in the gardens surrounding the magnificent palace of Hellbrunn. Well, I’m back to that Salzburg weight, but not because of […]
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“I Disappear!”
I was reminded recently of the movie “Billy Eliot.” The story tells about the unlikely path of a pre-adolescent boy in a northern English coal mining town. While the majority of his mates take up boxing, a “manly” activity, Billy Eliot feels drawn to ballet. The boy’s friends look at him askance and the girls […]
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