Complegalitarian

Lover of words that I am, that one has rolled pleasantly around inside of my head since I first heard it. It is the name of a new blog, a spin-off of Better Bibles Blog.
I like the word for how it sounds. And I also like it because I think it more or less describes [...]

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I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say…

…”Come unto me and rest;
lay down, thou weary one, lay down
thy head upon my breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was,
so weary, worn, and sad;
I found in him a resting place,
and he has made me glad.
This song began to run through my head tonight in response to the word “weary” being the most accurate description [...]

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Miscellaneous personality stuff

Well, I know my identity is rather obscure to most of my readers. There are several reasons, including wanting privacy because of some circumstances I have been through recently. But I’ve also been thinking that, even if those circumstances were different, I’d probably still like to blog more or less anonymously.  Iyov said something a while ago that [...]

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Personality–transformed by God?

I wrote the bulk of this post first as a comment in response to another comment on Better Bibles Blog. But I caught myself before submitting it, because I realized it would probably be better as a post here than a comment there.
For background, Wayne Leman has a survey in progress about personality types and Bible [...]

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This is a Test

I took the following personality test some time ago, but couldn’t figure out how to post it in my blog, even though they give instructions for it on the test site. Lingamish explained it again, so this is a test to see if I actually correctly did what he said to do (can you tell [...]

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Contentment

I’ve been thinking a lot about contentment lately. And also feeling like something in my contentment wiring is about to short circuit.
In a previous post, I shared my struggle with the looming possibility of our having to move when the house we are living in sells, unless God provides a way for me to be able [...]

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Lament as Expression of Faith

“Bayer understands lament against God as one of the most profound expressions of faith. This is because the foundation of lament is belief in the essential goodness of God and his creation”
I stumbled upon the above quote in an interesting post  by Without Authority which addresses, from a Lutheran perspective, some of the things I’ve been struggling [...]

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To Trust a God Who Doesn’t Make Sense

Recently I read and was moved by one of Lingamish’s Cyber-Psalms. But, it was only through dialoging about it later on Lingalinga that I was able to sort through some of my own feelings and beliefs that were stirred by the original post.
I’m posting here one of my comments in that thread, not because I think what [...]

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Secret to Happiness

Thanks to Dr. Jim West, I’ve just discovered that the Danes and the Swiss are the happiest  people in the world. He says it has something to do with Luther and Calvin. But, since these great mysteries are written in a language I don’t understand, I had to do some more searching to discover the secret. Alas, [...]

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If only it were that simple!

Please leave your empty cylinder here.
No wait, No Worry
Cylinder Exchange
Happiness is a Full Tank!
I dream of the day when I can once again know what that feels like–to have my personal energy tank be full. Or at least to be able to operate with some amount of energy reserve instead of feeling like I’m running only on fumes.
I [...]

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