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What Is the Good News? Hear ye, hear ye!

Posted on July 14, 2023July 19, 2023 by Mike Mason

One of my own favorite lines I’ve ever written is in my book Champagne for the Soul where I say: “If you don’t know the good news, keep asking and asking until the answer that comes provokes an eruption of joy.” 

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Of Pencils and Shavers: The Complexity of the Ordinary

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 by Mike Mason

I hope I live long enough to see the next generation of electric shavers. Indeed I wonder if there has ever been a new generation of this appliance, since the ones today don’t work much better than the one my dad loaned me for my first shave back in the 1960’s.

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TESTING 1-2-3: A Spiritual Sound Check

Posted on June 15, 2023June 15, 2023 by Mike Mason

Life is a great mystery, and we have many questions.

Especially we wonder about evil and suffering.

Why? Why? Why?

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These Are the Glory Days: Beginning Eternity Now

Posted on June 2, 2023October 25, 2023 by Mike Mason

Back in the 80’s a favorite worship song of mine—and of just about everyone I knew—was “You Are My Hiding Place” by Michael Ledner.

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Tiny Expanses: Small Is Beautiful

Posted on May 19, 2023June 2, 2023 by Mike Mason

While writing a book called The Consolation of the Ordinary, I tried to come up with as many synonyms as possible for ordinary: daily, everyday, mundane, quotidian, common, and so on. Only late in this process did it occur to me that one such synonym is small.

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How To Be Free: Let God Be God

Posted on May 4, 2023May 19, 2023 by Mike Mason

If you want to be free, begin by having a God who is free. Let Him be free to do whatever He wants. He’s going to anyway, whether you like it or not, so you might as well give Him your blessing.

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Boy and Wagon: A Vision in Spring

Posted on April 20, 2023May 3, 2023 by Mike Mason

I’ll never forget the day I discovered that other people are real. It was 1981, the year I became a Christian, but the event I’m about to describe happened, interestingly, a few months before my conversion.

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Easter Dawn: Three Poems for Easter

Posted on April 8, 2023April 9, 2023 by Mike Mason

Three poems celebrating Christ’s Easter victory over death. He is risen! Alleluia!

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Good Friday: A Poem by Christina Rossetti

Posted on April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 by Mike Mason

The speaker in Rossetti’s poem feels like a stone for being unable to properly grieve the suffering and death of Christ.

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St. John of the Cross & the Dark Night of the Soul

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 by Mike Mason

John of the Cross is two amazing things: a saint, and one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language.

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