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Looking At Life From The Outside In – by Ed Dunn
Thirty-six years ago, I began to lose the ability to see whatever it was I was looking at directly. I began to lose my central vision. As a college freshman at the time, new to the Los Angeles, California area from the hills and hollows of rural Western Pennsylvania, I was already somewhat overwhelmed by my “big-city” environment. To suddenly and most unexpectedly face the deterioration of my eyesight, after a life of perfect, 20/20 vision to that point, I must admit, I was completely terrified. How would I go on? How would I find my way with so much of life yet ahead of me?
Following a long journey of eye doctor visits and the related ...
Doing the Work by Ed Dunn
I’ll never forget her words: Good job, Ed, good week - you are really Doing the Work! My counselor’s words would ring in my ears from the time I left her office until I would return again the following Friday afternoon. My counselor’s office had become a safe space, one I’d grown more comfortable within with each new visit. Week-in and week-out at a set time and within that comfortable space, her reinforcing message was clear: Keep Doing the work!
“A counselor?!” you may ask. “Why did you need a counselor, Ed?” That’s a fair question. As a follow-up to my last column entitled, Let the Past Be the Past, please allow me an ...
February 2022
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Ruth Tucker: Confronting Religious Shaming– pg. 2
Ed Dunn: Doing the Work– pg. 5
Greg Albrecht: Changed in the Presence of Pure Love – pg. 7
Let the Past Be the Past by Ed Dunn
Past and future veil God from our sight; let them both be burned up with fire. – Rumi, 13th Century Persian Poet
Life can give us such precious moments - a wedding day, closing on a first-home purchase, the birth of a child, a high school or college graduation – all of these events can remain with us as some of the best memories we can experience in life.
Life can also present us with such difficulty and heartache at times - a bitter and contentious divorce, a financial mishap, parenting miss-steps which may have led to strained relationships with our children, health challenges and accidents – these types of events can reside with ...
The Joy of Thanksgiving by Ed Dunn
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving… (Psalm 95:1-3, NIV)
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
An amazing thing happens when we offer thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy. - William Law
I can still remember several unmistakable signs that Thanksgiving Day would soon be upon us. I remember a cold so bracing I thought I caught the scent of ice in the air with each deep breath. I recall the smokey ...
Christ is Our Strength Within – By Ed Dunn
Friend and Partner Letter from September 2021:
Just as his insights graced our September 2020 letter, Ed Dunn returns to write our letter for September 2021. Ed is one of our key staff members, and he wears many hats. He contributes as a Board Member, a blogger, writer, and most recently, as the host of our monthly video This Month at PTM. He works with electronic and digital systems in our fulfillment center, and is one of the voices those who call 1-800-309-4466 hear.
Ed is an uplifting co-worker who enriches our office team and a fellow Friend and Partner with all of you, another team member who shares this ongoing work with you. We ...
September 2021
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Articles:
Remembering 9-11 in the Wake of 2020 – pg. 1
We Believe – pg. 2
Think on These Things – pg. 5
Forgiveness and Apologies – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
May 2021
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Articles:
What Is and Who Is the Church? – pg. 1
Break It Up – pg. 2
My Two "Moms" – pg. 5
Buzzy – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
April 2021
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Greg Albrecht: When Jesus Rode into Town– pg. 2
Laura Urista: The Heart of the Matter– pg. 4
Ed Dunn: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled– pg. 5
Brad Jersak: Pastoral Perspective – pg. 7
March 2021
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Articles:
The Crux of Our Faith – pg. 1
A Far, Far Better Rest – pg. 2
When I AM Lifted Up – pg. 5
Places I've Been – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
January 2021
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Articles:
Learning Pandemic Lessons – pg. 1
Here Comes the Dreamer – pg. 2
I Must Confess – pg. 5
My Sister Claretha – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
December 2020
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Greg Albrecht: God Is With Us– pg. 3
Brad Jersak: Phenomenal Cosmic Powers– pg. 8
Ed Dunn: The Season of Lights – pg. 10
Laura Urista: Christmas Presence – pg. 12
Richard Rohr: Centered in the Presence – pg. 14
Brad Jersak: Love or Syrupy Sentimentalism? -pg. 15
“Break It Up” by Ed Dunn
We received a distressing email from our Mom the other day. Both the tone and the content of her words were uncharacteristic, and alarmed my brothers and sisters and me to a point of picking up the phone. Over a series of calls at different times, we needed to make sure she was okay.
Our Mom’s message expressed a deep concern for everything that’s been happening in our nation today - the political divides, the racial divides, the economic divides, and the fact that no one seems to be listening to anyone, anymore. She lamented how far we’ve come, so fast, and that, not in a positive direction. She then went on to worry about the world her ...
I must confess – Ed Dunn
I must confess I enjoy a special tradition on the morning of each new New Year’s Day. With my college Sophomore, Lauren, upstairs and still fast-asleep, I like to bundle up, coffee up with a large “to-go” thermos and sneak quietly out of the house. The sun is rarely up as I do.
What could be my destination so early on the first day of each new year? That’s simple. I like to make my way with the crowds of excitable spectators hurriedly streaming southward towards a world-famous piece of real estate. I like to join in with one million or so other fans on their way to the narrow sidewalks of Colorado Boulevard.&...
Can We Talk? by Ed Dunn
Life “sheltering in place” these days has had its share of challenges for all of us. For more than eleven weeks now, I’ve shared my home, again, with my twenty-year-old daughter, Lauren. I say “again” because, as a “Third-Year” at a California university, Lauren has been home from school and back with me taking classes online due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Let’s just say we’ve had plenty of time and opportunity to talk.
As a father and daughter, we have talked about the recent events we as a nation, and the world, really, have experienced together on the critical topics of race relations, ...
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