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Spaghetti Saturday
In the Knight house on Route 2, Pelzer, South Carolina, it was just another spaghetti Saturday. Aunt Nancee obliged this ritual for my...
Jerry Waddell
May 24, 20222 min read


Such A Way
“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it” (1...
Jerry Waddell
May 17, 20222 min read


The More To Life
There’s a quality to taking a road trip. Driving down the road around curves and corners, rolling over a glacis or ambling down some live...
Jerry Waddell
May 10, 20222 min read


Our Longing
There are times when my faith is tried, when I move from that great welled feeling of comfort and mystery and theory into a guttural...
Jerry Waddell
May 3, 20222 min read


In the Shadow of Grace
I live in the shadows, the shaded remembrances of my past, persistent guideposts and framers of the person I was, who I became and still...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 26, 20222 min read


To Iconium I Go
“ But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 18, 20222 min read


The Life Before
I’ve heard it called the Easter story. To do so, I think, relegates it to a place and a time and a past, sets it apart as though it lived...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 12, 20222 min read


One And The Same
“I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong – that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 5, 20222 min read


Cross Words, Crossroads, and The Cross
“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Mother reared me with...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 28, 20222 min read


Lent is not a Season
I knew something was wrong. This something had no words, just feeling. Nothing I observed resembled the unthinking epithets hurled in...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 22, 20222 min read


More than a Symbol
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights,...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 15, 20222 min read


Tussie and Jordy - continued
Tussie and Jordy and the Light descended the stairs, into the dark, through the dungeon and outside. They took to the woods, venturing...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 8, 20222 min read


Tussie and Jordy
Jordy, where are we? I’m not sure Tussie, but I think we’re in the castle dungeon. There is some light but not much. I can make out the...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 1, 20222 min read


Saeculum
Saeculum “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” ( Matthew 6:21, NKJV). Saeculum. Saeculum? Yes, Saeculum. The end of...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 22, 20222 min read


The other way round
The Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 15, 20223 min read


As If It Were
See our other high quality images: “Shall I, for fear of feeble man, the Spirit’s course in me restrain? Or, undismayed in deed and word,...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 8, 20222 min read


The would be disciple who said no
Bartimaeus, possession is nine tenths of our demise. Fooled by allure, we think possession conveys who we are. How is it we think our...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 1, 20222 min read


A Most Intolerant Savior
Somewhere in the lexicon of Christian thought, the idea of tolerance crept in to suggest this was the whole and final conclusion one...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 25, 20222 min read


Chronos and Kairos meet again
(Note to reader: Chronos is the Greek word for chronological time. Kairos is the Greek word meaning seasonal time, i.e. God’s time as...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 18, 20222 min read


As it is written
Age has nothing to do with finitude. It has everything to do with an ever-widening awareness of the vicissitudes of perspective, the...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 11, 20222 min read
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