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Worth It

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No. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. MINE. Oh heck no.

I stood over my bed, sorting the mountain of clothes I’d collected there.

Keep. Give. Toss. Give. Give. Keep. Give. Not in a state for human wearability. Cut out the front for a project. Give.

Anybody walking in on me would smile, figuring I was doing a routine sorting of my clothes.

But it was a lot more than it appeared to be.

I grew up in a rather low-economy bracket. Whatever clothes came my way, I kept until they wore out or got too tight. I still don’t shop for clothes more than a couple times a year. They’re just not a high priority for me and I haven’t ever really cared what I looked like. Why should I? I dont want all my time and attention consumed by matching pieces of cotton and polyester. I certainly didn’t want anything that hugged me too close. Or showed off my body. Why would I want that attention? Best get the school uniform that’s obviously two sizes too large.

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Chloe

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This lady’s name is Chloe. She is a cowgirl, or so artist Shannon purports.  We don’t see her lasso or her horse. But she shore is perty!

Chloe, in this sketch, gave Shannon the chance to work with ruffles and wrinkles. Looking forward to what our resident artist dreams up next. Stay tuned . . .

Into the Storehouse

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This post was originally written in 2011.

These days I am learning more about the way the Lord provides than ever before.

If I thought I understood once, I am clearly in need of schooling again. I remember the first time the subject of tithing came up. I was attending a Messianic congregation and the rabbi was talking about giving a tenth to God. I was very challenged by the idea.

At the time I had a $20 in my pocket, and not much else at home. I put it in the plate almost defiantly (I was only a few months into my walk with God) asking the Lord to show me what He meant in Malachi 3:10:

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”

That night  I was singing in a bar and won the talent show with a cash prize of $50. You have to realize I almost never won when I sang in any kind of competition. The timing of my little win was not lost on me. As I remember I went another round on this subject with God the following weekend to find Him incredibly faithful. Since then, I have never questioned the wisdom of tithing.
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Interstate Culture Shock

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I’ve been to a lot of places in my life. As a kid, I traveled all over the United States with Mom and Dad. I’ve been to Mexico twice on Youth Group mission trips and over to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Germany, and Austria with Mom on her travels.

You’d think I would have experienced culture shock in any of these settings. Of course, it was funny to learn that “pants” means underwear in Ireland and that Germany has so many one-way streets that it’s hard to get anywhere on time in a car. But I did not experience real culture shock in these places. It was closer to culture novelty—a strange one-off happening—because I wasn’t going to stay very long.

I first experienced culture shock in Seattle. At the end of 2007 I moved from Los Angeles to the perpetually overcast city where rain comes in about ten more varieties than you might have thought possible. There I felt each difference, no matter how superficial, to my core. This, after all, was where I was going to live for a really long time.

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Once in a Wifetime

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On May 2, 1987 a young woman took my hand, placed a ring on the closest finger she could find and speedily said, “I do.” I repeated the gesture as it seemed only sporting at the time. With those two words I made Sally Klein the happiest woman in the world.

31 years have passed from that day to this, our Baskin Robbins® Anniversary. Yes, we are actually registered with the national ice cream retailer in case you were planning to send gifts in scoops, pints or those freezer-friendly 3-gallon tubs.

With those two words I made Sally Klein the happiest woman in the world.

Sally’s favorite flavor is Tax Crunch for its smooth blend of vanilla with a crackling fudge ribbon and rice crunchies. Mine is Vanilla. Like me it’s uncomplicated and melts all-too-quickly at the beach. White Desserts Matter. Right on!

But this is not a dissertation on ice cream. If it were we’d be talking SpicyWifey and ChubbyHubby. One of those is a flavor I just made up. Hey, a fella can dream, can’t he?

Wedding anniversaries are often fraught with danger for the male of the species as he is forever in danger of forgetting or confusing the day with another special event on the calendar—say, Tuesday. I have a different reason entirely for fearing spousal retribution on the day I was wed.

You see, I have three anniversaries.

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