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Your Children Might Make Our Children Stop Worshipping the Lord

August 22, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Today I selected the book of Joshua to listen to while painting. The problem with so much of the Old Testament is that it requires extensive understandings about so much context/details and such to properly understood any one text (or passage/story/genre), and especially to know what we are to take away in understandings and applications. Sometimes I just listen aloud and can get a sense of the flow or gist that isn’t caught up on every little detail, name or...

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Hand-Written Invitations (to LIFE, or to Sin, Immorality and Death?)

August 21, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

“What is the end of all of this ‘STUFF’?” — I ask myself. It seems almost every morning of every day as I awake (in the traditional sense of becoming aWOKEned with my coffee and such)–when I briefly browse Facebook–I see memes and statements that seem to be inviting others to “something” that are being written in a new Christianese. Welcome to the “brave, new world” that is slowly infiltrating the Church of which Jesus-followers must now navigate. But first,...

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An Army of Girls With Phantom Breasts

August 18, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I admire those who have a way with words in their writings. Today, I read this well-expressed piece by another writer on Substack (What if it won’t be enough?) and took note of two phrases that struck me, combining them into my title. She mentions an army of girls and then later toward the end, the idea of having phantom breasts. In case any reader is unclear of the context, this is a direct reference to the reality of having...

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The “Child” in One Hundred Years

August 13, 2023
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Last year one of my sons texted me a photo and said, “And then THIS happened.” He was showing me the results of his red heeler “knocking up” a friend’s aging beagle. I saw on my phone screen nine nursing pups with eyes yet closed. About a month later, this was the scene… This morning I went to search a certain biblical story on YouTube, but became distracted with the first link that showed/was suggested in my customized feed (the...

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Unbelievable?

August 8, 2023
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics

Secret Chinese-run CA lab hid COVID, other infectious … The Sacramento Beehttps://www.sacbee.com › california › article277949468 4 days ago — A secret Chinese-run laboratory in Reedley, California was illegally hiding infectious diseases, including COVID-19, malaria and other … What was inside the illegal medical lab found in California? … FOX59.comhttps://fox59.com › news › national-world › what-was… 5 days ago — (KSEE/KGPE) – Court documents detail the horrors and dangerous nature of an illegal lab found in Reedley, California, exposed several months ago … Illegal lab in California carried bioengineered mice … USA Todayhttps://www.usatoday.com › nation › 2023/07/31...

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The Reconstruction of Joseph (According to “Queer Theory”)

August 7, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

This morning I had reason to ruminate on the Joseph of Genesis. There was something in my mind that made me want to listen to a particular part of his story. The story of Joseph interpreting the cup bearer’s (and the baker’s) dream is what I wanted a refresher on, but I picked up right before that part and continued listening for awhile, up past the part where the brothers and then Jacob went into Egypt, and on past when...

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Shame

August 5, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events

The summer of 1981 was a time I came face-to-face with my own proclivity to do a variety of shameful and youthful things. One day in August, I had an experience where I believe the Holy Spirit overcame me with a deep sense of conviction of my sinfulness and need for Jesus, and I consider that moment forward the beginning of my desire for a new life, in God. As I went on into adulthood, there are some times when...

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Speak Softly, and Say the Word “DEMONIC”

July 31, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Understandably, there’s a lot of debate in the Church these days about how to respond to gender (and other) ideology, and all that these ideologies entail. I find that many whose lives have actually been impacted by it (as opposed to those yet unscathed who are trying to find their own navigation and even guide others through the difficult waters) fall into three basic categories: 1. The response from the place of fear (those attempting to prevent or mitigate any...

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To Teach is To Touch a Life Forever (A Conversation Thanks to John and Harmon)

July 30, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Both a grandfather and a great-grandfather of mine were pretty much contemporary colleagues of sorts– school teachers in the early 1900’s. My father’s maternal grandfather, Harmon Grimm, taught school school near Trego, Maryland. I do not know what ages or any details, but a family member said he also had a side hustle selling cut timber. My mother’s father, John Curry Linger, was a school teacher in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He also managed a family homestead and it is reported...

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you will ‘CREATE NOTHING’ and ‘you WILL BE HAPPY’ (and there will be no paper trail of how you arrived in this dreadful destination)

July 27, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

I’m kind of fond of paper, when it serves a good purpose. Some readers may recall physical books, and teachers insisting we show our math work on paper that would accompany tests involving multiple choice answers, and we may remember the importance of other kinds of paper throughout civilization–as we yet partake of that which has gone before, understanding, for the most part, how we got here. Photographs, art, historical documents, scriptures, instructions for building things, music and obviously, many...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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