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WEDNESDAY WILL BE A TOUGH DAY. I was thinking about it last week. I sat at my office desk, imagining what might happen on January 15, when we take our six-year-old black lab, Maizey, to Kansas State University for evaluation. Maizey, as I wrote last week, has been diagnosed with lymphoma. It’s not a curable disease in dogs. Lymphoma eval at K-State for Maizey The Veterinary Health Center at K-State is a teaching center for future vets. As I sat in my office, I imagined having to talk to students about what it’s like to go through this. It’s a …

THE DENTIST’S CHAIR is not a place I usually associate with spirituality or things of God. But it was there this morning that I learned something about who we are. The dental hygienist was at a pause point. She was changing techniques from waterboarding, as she called it, to fingernails on the chalkboard, as I call it—scraping my teeth with a pick.  What happened next is this: I choked on a story about my son. Very embarrassing. In the dentist’s office. It’s bad enough in church. A German connection We were talking about my grandkids and her two daughters and …

A MOUSY QUIET PRINTER I met at a meal last week texted me a strange note earlier this week. In it, he refused to print a Bible I never asked him to print. “Good morning Steve, I have decided to not move forward with you on the Casual Bible paraphrase. I have discussed with a man I trust. He is encouraging me not to be involved based on Matthew 5:17-18. ‘For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Do not think …

SAVED BY THE BAKER. These are the perfect peanut butter cookies, warm and perfectly served to me in a timely manner—when The Casual English Bible® website was driving me up the western wall. I’M NOT GOING TO WAIT and write this later. I’m writing it now, while it’s happening here at The Casual English Bible.® I want very much to get back to paraphrasing and mapping Jeremiah. But my days are collapsing in on me. There’s suddenly other stuff I have to do right now. TCEB 2.0 We added a new Bible map subscription service to The Casual English Bible® …