Author name: Dan

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

That didn’t sound like millennial talk, so I asked April what it meant. She spends much more time on Facebook than I do. She said, “If you know, you know.”
“So it’s a secret?” I asked.
“No,” she answered with an exasperated sound. “If you know, you know.”
“But I don’t know.” My brow furrowed into a frown.
“Try this one. I-Y-D-K-Y-D-K.” She smiled as if she knew the capitals of all fifty states, and I didn’t know even one. I hate that smile.

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THE EASY YOKE OF KNOWING

April owns two donkeys. Or they own her. I haven’t figured out which way the relationship flows. Either way, she knows her two ‘boys’ thoroughly. She knows the optimum amount of hay to give them calculated to the hundredths of an ounce. She knows the perfect living environment for them. She knows the exact level

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WHY CHRISTIANS OWN JOY

You take a step down the stairs and then another. Suddenly, overcome with joy, you’re dancing. People stare, but you don’t care. You keep dancing with a joy you’ve never experienced before. You dance across the street to the park and rip off your tennis shoes and socks. You dance on the grass, feeling its prickliness on the bottom of your feet. You’re alive again!

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OUR GOOD VERSUS OUR BEST

God is calling us hypocrites as well. That’s what Isaiah 29:13 is describing. We pretend to love Him with all our heart, but we’ve boiled the relationship down to man-made rules directing us to be ‘good.’ Such hypocrisy!
Only doing ‘good’ insults God. It probably irritates Him as well. Frustration as well? Sure.

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