Tag Archives: suffering

Unprecedented Opportunities

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Robert Franklin

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=beg&iid=5095143″ src=”2/c/9/9/Young_woman_cupping_c228.jpg?adImageId=11158329&imageId=5095143″ width=”234″ height=”205″ /]Hurricanes, earthquakes, famine, war and the coldest winter in the northern hemisphere in several decades:  it shouldn’t be long and the “end times” folk will once again be hanging from every chandelier, lurking around … Continue reading →

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My Friends Just Don’t Get It

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Robert Franklin

Have you done something so crazy that your friends told you it was so? Did you unsuccessfully try to explain? I remember when Michelle and I decided that God’s desire was for me to quit my job, completely forfeiting a … Continue reading →

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Negotiating the Ice (of Discontent)

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Robert Franklin

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=ice&iid=7945539″ src=”1/c/3/3/Snow_and_ice_76f1.JPG?adImageId=10366444&imageId=7945539″ width=”234″ height=”147″ /]Once upon a time there was this thing called “winter.”  I read about it in the Little House on the Prairie books.  One scene in particular remains in my memory: visiting the barn during … Continue reading →

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Smoking Alone Doesn’t Hurt Anybody

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Robert Franklin

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=marlboro&iid=7447577″ src=”a/5/c/0/Indycar_Testing_267d.jpg?adImageId=9540443&imageId=7447577″ width=”234″ height=”160″ /]I have noticed on these cold winter days, the brave few who need tobacco often partake in groups.  It is a rarer sight to see someone shivering alone.  It seems like even the … Continue reading →

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Monochromatic (Pt. 2 “The Soapbox”)

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Robert Franklin

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=soapbox&iid=7438818″ src=”6/4/4/0/Hoar_Cross_Holds_12c4.jpg?adImageId=9051965&imageId=7438818″ width=”234″ height=”351″ /] I try to refrain from “venting my spleen” while writing for public consumption.  The cybersphere is already full of bile anyway, why add mine?  The margin for error when standing on one’s soapbox is … Continue reading →

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Stripped

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Robert Franklin

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=embarrassed&iid=5084362″ src=”5/5/5/a/Boy_69_covering_ab29.jpg?adImageId=7753874&imageId=5084362″ width=”380″ height=”253″ /] Once upon a time not so long ago, the very discussion of being naked in public could horrify even the brashest of souls.  I remember sitting in the locker room raptly listening … Continue reading →

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