• About Bruce

    A web programmer by day, I somehow still spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, God, and the significance of grace and love in daily events. I am old school in the sense that I believe in the reality of sin, and in the need of each human heart for deliverance to the Divine. I am one of those who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you can find most answers to life's pressing issues in Him and His Word, the Bible. I ain't perfect, and a lot of the time I ain't good, but by God's grace and kindness, I am forgiven and free.

    SOTD: “Beer Money” by Kip Moore

    by  • May 24, 2013 • SOTD • 0 Comments

    Ever since I heard Kip Moore accept a request by a caller to the Bobby Bones show to come into the studio and play his song “Hey Pretty Girl” before the guy proposed on-air to his girlfriend, I’ve thought “That guy is cool”. And then I learned this is also one of his songs,...

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    An Ending

    by  • May 23, 2013 • Writings • 0 Comments

    The hardest part at the moment was the fact that everywhere he went in his home, she was there. Whatever loveliness that had taken place, the sweetest moments of joy and pleasure, the first moments of discovery and connection, the last moments of passion and pleasure before the axe fell and she catapulted him...

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    The Wound

    by  • May 23, 2013 • The Meaning of Manhood • 0 Comments

    As I have been digging through literature on male development and masculinity, I find I return to think about the concept forwarded by Eldredge and touched on by other authors: that those men who grow up with a stunted or damaged masculinity somewhere along the way were either abused or neglected in that area...

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    Bye, Birdies, Bye

    by  • May 3, 2013 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Well, it’s been three days now since I have seen the turtledove parents, and talking to Tim this morning, he suspects something spooked the adults and they have abandoned the nest- and the two eggs. It got down to 45 degrees last night, and without cover, I wonder about the viability of the eggs....

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    “On the Second Day of May…”

    by  • May 2, 2013 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    I’m not really sure how to fit this into the 12 Days of Christmas tune, but it appears God has given me some guests to watch. Over the last month or so, two turtledoves decided to take over the abandoned veggie tray that sits on the table on the grill in my backyard. I...

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    Cool It, Bro

    by  • April 2, 2013 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    The hard part for me about having this blog and writing things to it is that I am honest. I want to be an honest person. And I want to write honest things. But, unfortunately, I am also a pretty subjective person. I want to write a bit about my own life- my own...

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    Reflections from an Easter Weekend

    by  • March 31, 2013 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Today is Easter Sunday, which as a Christian I celebrate for the resurrection of Jesus, the foundational assertion and centerpiece of my faith- that God sent His Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for human sin, so that in His resurrection from the dead, Death would be dealt a mortal blow...

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    Surfacing for Spring

    by  • March 28, 2013 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    I think I’ve started six blog posts in the last month, and all of them with great seed ideas, but as I’ve tried to work through them, tapping ideas out onto the screen, the ideas have just wilted and died. I don’t know if this is writer’s block, or more broadly, just an alive-r’s...

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    SOTD: “Fly Over States” by Jason Aldean

    by  • March 22, 2013 • SOTD • 0 Comments

    There is definitely Midwestern blood in me. The first time I heard this song, I was pulled in by the lyrics, and I thought, yeah- I love what I’ve experienced of these places and spaces. Yawning skies and forever fields, flat far as you can see, the smell of the earth, of soil and...

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