Tag Archives: fear

Why I Don’t Do Drugs

Posted on April 27, 2020 by mitchteemley

Oh, I did, trust me. Like a lot of 18-year-olds, I dabbled in anything forbidden or frowned upon by old people over 30. It was the era when drugs were going to “expand our consciousness.” I’d watched the cast of … Continue reading →

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Do Not be Afraid!

Posted on January 2, 2020 by mitchteemley

2020. Day 2 out of 365. Gulp. It’s been said that the phrase “Do Not be Afraid” appears 365 time in the Bible–once for each day of the year. Whether or not that’s accurate, the phrase does appear throughout the … Continue reading →

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What Is It About Doorways?

Posted on October 4, 2019 by mitchteemley

What is it about doorways? As surely as doors have handles and hinges, they have feelings attached, as well. Wonder. Doubt. Hope. Fear. No doorway is ever just a doorway. It’s an opportunity or an obligation. A way into someone … Continue reading →

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Discipleship is Dangerous!

Posted on April 23, 2019 by mitchteemley

There are record numbers of suicides. Record levels of depression. Record levels of domestic abuse. Our world has never been more desperate for followers of Jesus to show the way out of this growing darkness! But the workers are few … Continue reading →

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Courage is…

Posted on April 20, 2019 by mitchteemley

“Courage is the greatest of all weapons, but it’s also an invisible one. You don’t know whether you have it until you’re called upon to use it.” ~from The Wishing Map, Episode 103

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Running Away

Posted on March 25, 2019 by mitchteemley

I’d threatened many times to join the circus or go live on a raft on the Mississippi like Tom and Huck. But that wasn’t the case this time. It was some since-forgotten atrocity—homework? weekend chores? (I still hate vacuuming)—that led … Continue reading →

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My Leap of Life

Posted on February 11, 2019 by mitchteemley

You’re caught in a blinding blizzard and you reach the edge of a cliff. The way back is death. The way forward is unknowable. And so you leap, hoping—without evidence—that you will land on something, rather than plunge into the … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 124

Posted on July 18, 2018 by mitchteemley

“Even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” ~2 Corinthians 11:14

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Us vs. Them

Posted on July 16, 2018 by mitchteemley

“There is no ‘them.’ There never was. There is only us.” I wrote this brief meditation on the rise of protective nationalism two years ago. It’s still happening, and I’m still against it. You?

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The Wishing Map 123

Posted on July 11, 2018 by mitchteemley

Evil does not create. Its aim is to distort, to make a mockery of what has already been created.

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