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Father of the Bride

Craig — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:17:01 +0000

I’d forgotten how sentimental the movie “Father of The Bride” is. Together, our staff took a long lunch to watch the film and encourage our colleague Brad Beck, who will be “giving away” his daughter Brianne this...

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The Issue Isn't Our Desire, It's Our Timing.

Craig — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:48:39 +0000

We were created for unimaginable levels of pleasure… isn’t that what Eden held?

Therefore, of course we legitimately long for all the pleasure we can squeeze out of life… that’s part of being, at the core,...

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Hitting The Wall

Craig — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:09:11 +0000

I remember Bill Sayers and I running the Redondo Beach Village Runner Fourth of July 5K. It’s a route set on the bluffs above the ocean run by a festive mob of Los Angelinos. The holiday enthusiasm of the crowd causes most to...

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Limitations

Craig — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:07:03 +0000

Today is "Cycle Six, Day Ten" which in Chemotherapy parlance means that the first day of my sixth and final cycle of Chemo was ten days ago. Internally some demonstrative part of me is screaming, “Are you Florence Kling...

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Feather Tuffed

Craig — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:41:07 +0000

Do you know that feeling of returning home after being away for a while? Perhaps you’ve been out of town on vacation, visiting the in-laws, stuck on a desert island or had your head in the sand and you walk back into you house just as...

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Let Go of The Rope!

Craig — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:53:48 +0000

Back Story:

A friend sent me this video link of a few surfers and a “wave” off the shore of Teahupoʻo, a village on the south-west coast of the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, southern Pacific Ocean.

Thoughts:

For so many reasons...

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Christianity 101

Craig — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:07:51 +0000

Early in my Christian walk I fell into a subset of believers viewed by other believers as depreciating the call to an obedient submission to the Lordship of Christ by our “over emphasis” on the grace of God. They may have been right, I...

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Round two...

Craig — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:26:37 +0000

Round 2 of the 6 Round Event begins tomorrow here at my local hospital/cancer center. The drugs I took over the course of four days last month at MD Anderson will be given Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

I started to write a lengthy update of...

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Friends Who Pray

Craig — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:57:42 +0000

This evening ends “Day Nine” of my chemo-journey.

Here’s what I want to say to each of you, “Thank you, your prayers made a difference.”

At this moment those few words capture what I believe to be true of your...

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A Second Opinion

Craig — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

When cancer intrudes into your life it comes with a boatload of baggage. Some of it you’d expect: anxiety, an in-your-face mortality smack, physical symptoms, warring hell’s vermin, lifestyle changes and a profound desire to live and...

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