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Endings? Beginnings. And Misplaced Priorities

Several reminders have come to me over the last month of the importance of returning to this blog. I certainly have had the ideas. I have even promised people that I would write a blog post about this or that. So this morning as I stood in the mirror at 2:45 am, I had yet another idea. This blog post is both the prequel and the sequel to a previous post . In that post I had promised to write about the beginning. That was almost two years ago. So here we are at the beginning. When I was in college I did the thing that many do- I got a piercing. First my belly button. Then my nose. I wanted it done and so it was. I was growing in my understanding of what it means to walk with the Lord, and so needless to say I consulted him about neither piercing. I actually thought little about them until summer 2006. I was scheduled to have my wisdom teeth removed. I was laying in the chair all prepared except for one tiny obstacle: my nose ring. The dentist refused to perform the oral surgery with ...