Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton A young boy has his mother back. From the jaws of tragic loss, comes delicious, unspeakable joy. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Colombia Aug. 10. Since then we’ve read stories with updates on the death toll, the number of people missing and damage to buildings. But one story grabbed me …
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by Kevin Burton So I missed my window. Again. As Stockard Channing’s character Betty Rizzo sang in “Grease,” “there are worse things I could do….” This here blog, Page 7, turned seven years old July 20 and I didn’t usher it into year eight properly, with a birthday post. One reason was …
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by Kevin Burton Sometime in the 90s when I worked at a photo lab, a co-worker asked me a question;. “If you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?” My answerer was something about spreading the gospel. “What’s stopping you?” He asked. His point was nothing …
by Kevin Burton Today we talk birthdays on what would have been my mother’s 92nd. She died May 4, leaving an unfillable hole in my heart and life. She is gone from this life but far, far from forgotten. There were many special days while mom was with us. Birthdays were among the …
by Kevin Burton My wife Jeannette sent me a devotional from the Bible app that leads with “Love is the beginning of everything.” It’s written under the title, “The Great Love of Jesus.” The closer I can stay to that theme and awareness, in what I do and say and pursue in …
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by Kevin Burton “And when one of us is gone, and one of us is left to carry on, then remembering will have to do..” “You and Me Against The World” Helen Reddy The first song I played after learning of my mother’s death on May 4, was “First Morning In Heaven,” by The …
by Kevin Burton Most of the words I share today come from Truth For Life, the Cleveland ministry founded by Alistair Begg. But I also imagine them coming also from my late mother. They are words she might well have spoken in her final days. Mom died May 4. She had close …
by Kevin Burton I bury my mother today. Can you imagine such a thing? Life is a coin flip, with love on one side and pain on the other. Pain, in some measure, is the residue of love. Live. Love. Toss the coin. Do it. “There’s a sad day coming, and …
by Kevin Burton I called the cemetery where my mother will be buried next week and told the clerk that the time had come. The clerk was actually en route to work. She said she would look up our family’s records once she got there, and call me back. “Everything is paid …
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by Kevin Burton One day my mother received a letter. The people who owned the house she was renting were going to sell it, and she had 30 days to get out. It was ridiculous to expect her to move that quickly, and my brother successfully negotiated an additional six weeks. But we …
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