Monthly Archives: August 2022

To Be Like Him

Posted on August 21, 2022 by mitchteemley

I’m particularly taken with this translation of Revelation 22:4 by theologian Dallas Willard. It captures viscerally the heart-stirring truth that to know God, “to see Him as He truly is,” is to be like Him (1 John 3:2). Oh, that … Continue reading →

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Forgetting the Way to Yourself

Posted on August 20, 2022 by mitchteemley

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Unable to find his sister back at home, Zack had jumped through the Wishing … Continue reading →

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Capturing the Unexpected

Posted on August 19, 2022 by mitchteemley

Once, when I was a kid, I tossed a quarter, watched it land perfectly balanced on its edge, and then stay that way! My friends were convinced I’d somehow stuck it there when they weren’t looking. If only I’d had … Continue reading →

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Going Beyond Our Cubicles

Posted on August 18, 2022 by mitchteemley

Image source: betanews.com Our contempory culture is in the midst of a growing sociological divide. New walls go up every day, it seems, not so much between classes, as between values and belief systems. The best way to tear down … Continue reading →

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A Bird’s-Eye View of Paradise

Posted on August 17, 2022 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Cindy Knoke, photographer extraordinaire, whose images typically emanate from her home, “the Holler,” in rural California (yes, there is such a thing). But in this case, they’re a bird’s-eye view of paradise, namely the … Continue reading →

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My Brief but Glorious Career as a Monster

Posted on August 16, 2022 by mitchteemley

Monster Me (photo enhanced by me, age 11) My Real Memoir I’ve admitted before my boyhood affection for monsters. No, more than just affection, from Dr. Frankenstein’s befuddled electro-charged jarhead to that ultimate pound puppy, the Wolfman, I empathized with … Continue reading →

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Dog Days

Posted on August 15, 2022 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Lily, a six-year-old Great Dane, had lost both of her eyes due to a rare medical condition. She’d also lost the will to live. Until one day another Great Dane named Maddison came into her life. … Continue reading →

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Faith Is More…

Posted on August 14, 2022 by mitchteemley

“Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.” ~Ephesians 4:15 “Now this is eternal life: that they my know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, … Continue reading →

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The Girl in the Cloud

Posted on August 13, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Doris Cologna The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Zack’s sister Gina had been waylaid in her search for … Continue reading →

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Hope for the Human Race

Posted on August 12, 2022 by mitchteemley

Last week I posted a snarky photoblog entitled No Hope for the Human Race! but promised a counter-blog this week. Here it is. In the world of rhetoric, anecdotes are not considered sufficiently pursuasive to prove a point — unless … Continue reading →

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