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Perfection, not progress
Sitting in a restaurant recently, eating a buckwheat crepe filled with brie and topped with strawberries, grapes and walnuts, I looked up...
Jerry Waddell
May 21, 20242 min read


A proper way to end
I have noticed, and I’m sure you have, too, a fashion, an inclination, an easy agreement in conversation when the subject arises about...
Jerry Waddell
May 14, 20242 min read


What He Did
Spring rushed in this year and claimed an early arrival. Winter fell away, released its reign and loosened its grip on my pessimism. So...
Jerry Waddell
May 7, 20242 min read


A fine interruption
Another meeting schedules me. Another phone call interrupts. A text dings on my cell. I jot a note down to attend to later and somehow...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 29, 20242 min read


Ambling down the lane
In South Carolina, down along a branch of the old Dixie Highway, known as the Augusta Road, serenely shouldering the road is Lickville...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 23, 20242 min read


Where God Wishes
Words travel. And by this I mean to say spoken words do not just fall upon someone’s ears, but they also change meanings and can become...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 16, 20242 min read


God is the opposite
“For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith” (Galatians 5:5). With a wry smile, the old man looked at...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 9, 20242 min read


It takes a while
It took a while. Had circumstances meted a different outcome, The Masters golf tournament and Augusta National may have died as but a...
Jerry Waddell
Apr 1, 20242 min read


Power's only restraint
There was a time in my life when I took a boat to work. I traveled 45 minutes down the Intracoastal Waterway between Hilton Head Island...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 25, 20242 min read


Life lives me
It’s another routine morning. My alarm sounds at 5 a.m. I rise toward clarity. Prayer and devotion follow. The newspapers hit my steps at...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 18, 20242 min read


Creeks end
I am restless on this chilled fresh morning. Each attempt to settle and focus finds one more distraction claiming my attention. Thoughts...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 12, 20242 min read


And so, I do
Up on the mountain, on the Cumberland Plateau, one hour and fifteen minutes from this North Georgia Piedmont, a man can take a trailhead...
Jerry Waddell
Mar 5, 20242 min read


But not all are lost
We called our group the “Elite.” The reason for the name is lost in my memory. The name afforded each member no special circumstance...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 27, 20242 min read


Between the dusts
I can’t believe in a God that instructs to kill. Why Jerome, I think you just admitted there is a God. I thought you were an atheist....
Jerry Waddell
Feb 20, 20242 min read


The Shepherd's Tree
Evident to me during my morning intercessory prayer, I was praying for a happy ending for those I prayed. A moment after, I felt this was...
Jerry Waddell
Feb 13, 20242 min read


Two Sermons
I went to church this past Sunday. I heard a fine sermon on the essential truth Christ is of the substance of God, One with the Father....
Jerry Waddell
Feb 6, 20242 min read


When I slow down
“… that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 30, 20242 min read


A young tempter progresses
“Hardtack, I have not meant to ignore you. Our leader, Screwtape, demanded my presence for an update on an overall change in strategy...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 23, 20242 min read


Turning thirsty
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 15, 20242 min read


There is no end
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus...
Jerry Waddell
Jan 9, 20242 min read
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