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Lent- Second Sunday: Blessings.

(Image Source: Genius)   “If I ever took a loss, I learned a lesson”“Blessings”, Lecrae   I lost three followers from this blog’s Facebook page over the past week and a half- you know, since I started these daily Lenten posts. Ha. While I’m disappointed, I’m not shocked. I’ve been blogging off and on now…

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Lent- Day 10: Happily Never After?

Chidi (William Jackson Harper) and Elanor (Kristen Bell), “soulmates” in NBC’s The Good Place (Image Source: Vulture)   Alright, after yesterday’s start in the 1990s before heading back to the 1690s, it’s time we head back to the present, also known as “The Dumpster Fire That Started in 2016 But Has Not Been Extinguished Yet”, or 2017…

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Lent- Day 9: I wonder if Heaven has a ghetto.

Tupac Shakur (Image: Flickr Zennie62/ Creative Commons)   Yesterday, I went back to 1997, and before I head Back to the Future, I want to stop off in October when Tupac’s first posthumous single, “I Wonder if Heaven Got A Ghetto”” was released.  My Mom shook her head at it incredulously. “Of course Heaven won’t…

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Lent- Day 8: Ready to Die.

Christopher Wallace, A.K.A., Biggie Smalls (Image Source)   Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of rapper Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G. It’s bizarre to me that it’s been two decades already. Perhaps even more jarring is the fact I’ve outlived him by over a decade since he was only 24 when killed. His…

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Lent- Day 7: You say acquiescence, I say injustice.

One of Martin Luther King’s mug shots. (Image source.)   I had IVIG infusion treatment, and my nurse Charlie shared with me about his time serving in the military in the early 60s. At one point, while stationed in Germany, he was detailed to secure President John F. Kennedy (the same trip during which he…

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Lent- Day 6: For all are trolls.

The gang from “Trolls”, from the Dreamworks site.   Admit it: At one point or another, you have probably said something unpleasant online that you later regretted—and that you wouldn’t have said in person. It might have seemed justified, but to someone else, it probably felt inappropriate, egregious or like a personal attack. In other…

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Lent- Day 5: Scandalous.

Mary Astor. Image via Public Domain.   “Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.” – Ecclesiastes 7:7   My, my, my, Ms. Astor, your dirty diary is so infamous that there have been books written about it and you eight decades after they first caused scandal in the midst of…

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Lent- First Sunday.

(Image Source)   Happy Sunday. Today I’ll just leave you with Hillsong UNITED’s Billboard topping megahit, “Oceans (Where Feet My Fail)”, and an invitation to send any prayer requests you may have to me confidentially at jumpingatthesun@gmail.com, or leave them in a comment. 

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Lent- Day 4: Missing.

(Podcast art for Missing Richard Simmons)   Have you heard about the new podcast Missing Richard Simmons? I listened to the first three installments this morning and am hooked. Not since the first season of Serial have I been so sucked into a podcast, glued to my iTunes the way I imagine Americans would gather around a…

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Lent- Day 3: Buy truth, don’t sell it.

(Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in “I Love Lucy”, via Google Images)   I just finished the Audible version of “Lucy and Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple” (a great listen, even for casual fans of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz). One part that stuck out was Lucy’s turn to the…

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