Gene’s Sabbatical Adventure, Issue 1 : Jan 24, 2024

Gene’s Sabbatical Adventure, Issue 1 : Jan 24, 2024

I've had the good fortune to spend a good bit of time standing in cold trout water casting upstream to trophy trout. At least in my mind they were trophy trout. The idea is to gently land the fly just above the fish and let it drift as naturally as possible through the fish's feeding slot. It's also important is that the fly line land softly with just the right of slack so that on the one hand it doesn't drag the fly, and on the other the fisherman has sufficient amount of control of the fly to set the…
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And yet…

There is so much that’s great. People. Ideas. Landscapes. Art. Friendship. Courage. Skill. Individuality. Purpose. Love… like the love Heather must have for me. And like the love Jesus must have for me… to give up his life for me on the cross, to redeem me. Me! A chief of sinners. What do I feel when I realize how retched I actually am … wholly incapable of pulling myself out of the muck I am so drawn to and turning and calling out to Jesus? Because if I am honest, I secretly wish I could be deserving of salvation on…
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Never spend less than $100

Never spend less than $100

We all know what it is like to feel trapped in the urgent. You know, all the stuff that if somehow don’t get done right now the world will come crashing down. I woke up the other morning about 3 with a list of four or five things that all of a sudden “absolutely had to get done today for sure”, if not yesterday. (It is interesting that these things were comfortably on a list of “things that ought to be done tomorrow” the night before.) But at three am when I really should have been sleeping, the blasted things…
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