Awakenings

Glimpses of the Divine in the Mundane

He stood against the wall, wearing jeans and a long-sleeve t-shirt.  A baseball cap covered his hair and hid his identity from most of the crowd.  He pulled out the prized possession from its case and began to fill the metro station with the sounds of beauty and magic – the sounds of music. Joshua …

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Outside my window one afternoon, while grading papers and doing other work, I overheard two young men talking about girls.  But this just wasn’t any conversation!  One guy was telling the other all the things he had to do exactly right to ask a certain girl out.  It was great advice, really!  I was pretty …

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There was a strange feel in the hot summer breeze – the kind of essence that brings goose bumps to your skin even in the heat of August.  There we were, in Memphis, TN to see some of the sights.  This was little over a month ago.  We thought it would be cool to swing by …

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