Tag Archives: heart-mind

The Bath of Wrath

Posted on September 11, 2016 by ehurst

Context first: I don’t dispense truth for your consumption. At most, my writing exposes to your awareness things your heart already knows. Some of us are able to subject our minds to our hearts, and we get to a point … Continue reading →

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Photography: Labor Day Ride

Posted on September 5, 2016 by ehurst

As always, click on any image to see it full-sized. CTRL-click will open the image in a separate browser tab. The ride was good exercise and my knee is getting more used to it, as you might expect. However, there … Continue reading →

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Natural Recompense

Posted on August 27, 2016 by ehurst

In my hand was one of those folding extended reach tools, which I call a “picker.” Out in Choctaw I always kept one for picking blackberries and sand plums. Around here it’s now used as a trash picker. In my … Continue reading →

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Free Care Is Expensive

Posted on August 26, 2016 by ehurst

Hospitals are not a healthy atmosphere. Yesterday was another VA appointment. I didn’t learn what I wanted to know, but I did learn something. Through the stumbling bureaucratic confusion, I managed to get an echo cardiogram. The technician said she … Continue reading →

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Don’t Waste It

Posted on August 25, 2016 by ehurst

We could comment prophetically on the scene around us. For example, the Civil Rights Movement — it’s not as if there were no real problems there, but they were never solved. Instead, new problems were introduced because, whatever it was … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Darkness 02

Posted on August 12, 2016 by ehurst

By now we should understand that the term “demon possession” conjures a wholly bogus image of how things actually work. The question is not binary; all of us suffer some demonic presence in our lives to varying degrees. There is … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Darkness 01

Posted on August 11, 2016 by ehurst

Let’s take a fresh look at the Dark Side, shall we? Take a moment to refocus your awareness in your heart-mind. Get a good grip on the moral anchorage of your convictions, because we need to face some stormy truth. … Continue reading →

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Taste the Wind

Posted on August 3, 2016 by ehurst

The heavens record the glory of God; And the firmament declares His handiwork. Day unto day gushes with speech, And night unto night reveals awareness. There is no speech, and there are no words; Their voice is not heard. (Psalm … Continue reading →

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Wordless Truth

Posted on August 1, 2016 by ehurst

(This is the instructional portion of today’s message. The prophetic portion is in another blog post.) Of course, I used the word “instructional” advisedly because it can’t be taught, only caught. Nobody can tell you much about how the heart … Continue reading →

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The Communion of Tribulation

Posted on July 30, 2016 by ehurst

In some ways, there is no going back. This is why I warn readers that, while we do have an obligation to understand the Ancient Near Eastern culture so that we can understand the Bible, we cannot go back and … Continue reading →

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