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Are You Aware? We Are All Enlisted
This is part I in our “battlefronts” Awareness Wednesday series. Read the other posts in the series here. I have been thinking about the words “We are all enlisted till the conflict is o’er.” As a pacifist, I am generally not a big fan of battle-themed songs, despite their stirring and jaunty tunes. But this one feels particularly relevant to the lives we are leading today, and as I have thought about the message, I can appreciate the value of metaphors that allow us to identify and “fight” the battles in our lives. If you are like me, you have been worried about a lot of people, and situations beyond our…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Voices
Like many of you I am a news junkie. I want to know what’s going on in the U.S., as well as around the world and understand the issues and respective implications. And also like most of you, I never seem to have enough time in any given day or week to read (and do) all of the things I would like to. So many responsibilities, worthy causes and interests vying for our time. So many sources of news competing for our attention, it feels like ‘information overload’ or at least ‘abundance’ is the order of the day. Throw in an obsession for good books and worthy ideas and it…