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Flowing Tears
- Sep 02, 2017
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Sara Groves has a line in her song Going Home that says, “I’m confined by my senses.” That’s how I’m feeling these days. Tears don’t seem adequate, I don’t see the bigger picture, I can’t. I’m struggling to hear from God about a variety of things. My body is failing…
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The Grace of Grief
- Feb 23, 2016
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Chicago has a beautiful roadway called Lake Shore Drive. It is nearly 65 miles in length with a significant portion carrying you through the central portion of the city along the lakefront. I’ve enjoyed that drive at two pivotal points in my life. For approximately 2 years I would take my lunch…
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Grief, the Gift that Keeps on Giving
- Feb 06, 2016
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I intended to start a series on my transition from my job of 31 years to my new life and new job. I wrote about it a few weeks ago, then couldn’t continue. Mostly because grief hit me hard. You know those commercials where the person is walking under a…
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Mike’s Top 10 For Christmas Week and Beyond
- Dec 28, 2015
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Rumbling Around My Head. Christmas Week 2015. 1. Go tell it on the mountain. Jesus Christ is born. That breaks the game wide open doesn’t it? 2. There’s seems to be a growing movement standing against the tidal wave of hate that threatens to wash over us. Love will win…
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Mike’s Top 10
- Dec 21, 2015
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Rumbling Through My Head 1. At times I think some of the cultural hysteria about just about everything boils down to the fact that down deep people are hugely annoyed by the inconvenience of having their goals blocked. We want it our way all the time. The problem is that…
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Pushed out the door by God or man?
- Dec 13, 2015
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On September 30 I left Moody Radio after 31 1/2 years. I’ve not talked about it much other than to state the fact. I guess saying I left isn’t exactly honest. I was let go along with my colleagues Melinda Schmidt, Lori Neff and Caryn Rivadeneira. Some reading this already…
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The World Has Changed
- Dec 07, 2015
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…..And once again I steal some thoughts from my husband Mike’s Facebook page. He is a provoker and a prophetic voice. Sometimes they are one in the same. The world has changed. We know it. We sense it. We have some choices. We can hunker down, buy a gun or assemble…
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Taking a Walk with a few Friends
- Nov 30, 2015
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Last Friday I did something I’ve never done before. I’ve considered it in the past, but never pulled the trigger. My husband Mike and I decided to drive into the city and join a march for justice and peace. Held on Black Friday, the march brought Michigan Avenue, the well…
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Mike Murphy’s top 10 for Thanksgiving Week
- Nov 28, 2015
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In My Head. Thanksgiving Week. 2015. 1. There’s a time when you just have to do the right thing despite not having total assurance that something about it won’t turn around and bite you. 2. Thankful for those who are standing up to the cultural, religious and political bullies in…
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Anita and Mike go the mosque
- Nov 23, 2015
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Last Saturday I had an interesting experience. Besides the record setting snowfall in the Chicago area, my husband Mike and I went to our local mosque. Earlier in the week a postcard arrived with an invitation to “Get to know your Muslim neighbors.” Since the local mosque is less than a…