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- plan now if you want to hit the sweet spot this holiday season
  
  Posted at 10:27 am by derekmaul, on November 13, 2018
  After Jesus was born in Bethlehem, wise guys rode into Jerusalem from the east asking questions, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We carry his star in our hearts and we have travelled all this way just to worship him.” – Matthew 2, author paraphrase
  
  In My Heart I Carry A Star
  
  It may only be early in November, but already I’m starting to see advertisements for books, study guides, and curriculum ideas for Advent (the four weeks of preparation leading up to Christmas). There’s some good stuff out there, and I’m a strong advocate of anything that helps people approach the holiday season in the right spirit. Lord knows there are enough of the wrong messages being launched our way and we could all use some help to keep on track.
  
  However, as I reviewed what is current and available, I have to conclude that my favorite “classic” Advent study is still the absolute best option if we are interested in arriving at December 25 with our “reason for the season” in focus, on point, and intact.
  
  In My Heart I Carry A Star remains one of my most popular books, and I absolutely guarantee you will enjoy it. If it’s already on your bookshelf then please think about getting a copy as a gift for family or friends. The book also works well as a small group study, a class, or a devotional exercise with one or two people.
  
  The blurb on the back of the book sets the stage:
  - “Very often, starting around the day before the night before Christmas, otherwise dark people begin to light up from the inside. Something changes – something fundamental…”
  - “It’s a tree, what’s it doing in the living room?”
  - “The roof of the house was lit up like the main runway at Tampa International Airport!”
  - “Deep inside me,” the troubled child had written, “I carry a star. A light sometimes only I can see…”
  Some bloggers carry advertising to cover their costs. Some take a few dollars for product placement. Some allow pop-ups. As for me, once in a while I’m going to (shamelessly) point you to my book list. Today I’m recommending In My Heart I Carry A Star. I believe it will easily be the most effective use of a few dollars you will find between now and Christmas.
  
  I mean, who wouldn’t want 2018 to be the absolute best Christmas ever? Christmas how you have always dreamed it could be, because your heart is in tune and the way you prepare for the coming of Jesus simply makes your spirit sing and your life resonate with peace.
  
  Hope, Peace, Love, & Joy – DEREK
  
  In My Heart I Carry A Star: Stories for Advent – 2nd edition
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  Posted in Christmas, faith, The Life-Charged Life, The Story, writing life | 0 Comments | Tagged Advent study, Best Christmas ever, Christmas 2018, featured, stories for Advent, the wise guys
- What can we learn from all these veterans and the graves of their comrades?
  
  Posted at 9:58 am by derekmaul, on November 12, 2018
  War, huh, yeah
  What is it good for
  Absolutely nothing
  War, huh, yeah
  What is it good for
  Absolutely nothing
  Say it again, why’all
  
  War, huh, good god
  What is it good for
  Absolutely nothing, listen to me… – Barret Strong / Norman Whitfield
  
  I’m gonna lay down my sword and shield
  Down by the riverside
  I’m gonna study, study, war no more
  
  I ain’t gonna study war no more
  Ain’t gonna study war no more
  I ain’t gonna study war no more – Louis Daniel Armstrong
  
  One hundred years ago the world tried to make a decision for peace. It was Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.
  
  The brutal conflict that had consumed Europe was named, “The War to End All Wars.” It seemed a reasonable title at the time because, well, who could imagine doing anything like that ever again?
  
  So this is a good day to look at pictures of cemeteries. The stories they hold speak of real people who lived and loved and who were loved – each loss a bitter wound to a family and a community. They are stories of sacrifice, of bravery, of heroism, of service, and of struggle. But the poignant images of grave markers – row after row after row – also speak of how little we learn from generation to generation and how precarious the balance remains between war and peace.
  
  Remembrance Day:
  
  Growing up in England, Armistice Day was also known as Remembrance Day. Not just to remember with gratitude the selfless commitment of those who serve but also to remember (with caution) the dangers of nationalism, of “_____________ (any country) First”, of xenophobia, of arrogance, of racism, of polarization, and of the widespread creeping disdain for compromise that is rearing its head again today, that always leads to conflict, and that is disturbingly reminiscent of the world that went to war in 1914….
  
  These photographs are from our last visit to Arlington National Cemetary. May their sacrifice guide us to a more lasting peace – DEREK
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  Posted in commentary, Current News, life, politics, The Story, Travel | 0 Comments | Tagged Arlington National Cemetery, Armistice Day, featured, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, Wart to End all Wars, World War One
- The first Bluebird at Maul-Hall – responding to the invitation to sing praise!
  
  Posted at 7:34 am by derekmaul, on November 11, 2018
  The birds nest beside the streams
  and sing among the branches of the trees. – Psalm 104:12
  
  For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. – Isaiah 55:12
  
  What better image for a Sunday morning than our first Eastern Bluebird of the winter. The Bluebirds tend to stay away from our garden until the first serious cool down and this weekend the temperatures are dropping off considerably.
  
  Consequently, Maul-Hall is back on the Bluebird radar and I was ready with their favorite mealworm treat. So nasty, but exactly the right snack if I want them to come back!
  
  I understand that most of the feelings, emotions, and opinions we attribute to animals are largely a product of our need to believe we understand what they are saying… but I swear these oh-so-beautiful birds are singing very real hymns and they are doing it with eloquence and authenticity.
  
  I believe it is no happenstance that Jesus pointed to the birds as examples. The Creator knows the creation and there is something about the way birds let loose with song that makes me convinced they know of what and to whom they are giving voice.
  
  there is something about the way birds let loose with song that makes me convinced they know of what and to whom they are giving voice
  
  An invitation in their song:
  
  More importantly, I sense an invitation in their song. I honestly believe that Creation constantly sends out invitations to join in with gratitude and thanksgiving – if only we pause enough to pay attention.
  
  I plan to pick up more on this later in the week, but – in my Saturday morning group at WFPC – we talked about making the shift from simply looking for evidence of God from day-to-day to being evidence of God in the lives of those we may encounter.
  
  It’s one thing to say, “I met God when I listened to the song of the Eastern Bluebird this morning…” it’s another to be the reason someone else knows that they have encountered the Living God.
  
  In love, and because of love – DEREK
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- Beauty and the art of Georgia O’Keeffe
  
  Posted at 10:36 am by derekmaul, on November 10, 2018
  God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11
  
  For those who appreciate the power and the beauty of great art, this post is for you. The images here are photographs that I took (with permission, by the way, and without using flash)… featuring amazing paintings crafted by one of America’s pre-eminent Twentieth-Century artists, Georgia O’Keeffe.
  
  Creativity – and beauty – of this magnitude has the effect of simply washing over those who are fortunate enough, blessed enough, to experience it in person. Simply put, you need to go to the exhibit. The images I captured carry probably one-percent (or less) of the gravitas and the emotional impact of the works themselves.
  
  O’Keeffe – for those of you who weren’t paying attention in your art-history class – is understood as the mother of American Modernism. She lived from the mid-1880’s through the mid-1980’s, impacting the art world as an iconic, masterful presence. She took Impressionism into the Twentieth-Century, applying her vision to the cityscape of New York, flowers you could almost crawl into, and the desert landscape of her beloved SouthWest.
  
  The North Carolina Museum of Art is an amazing location that I am sure we will return to again and again. Art is good for the soul. Enjoy these images.
  
  “Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
  
  DEREK
  
  Rebekah viewing O’Keeffe – my view is through an O’Keefe sculpture
  
  Rebekah viewing O’Keeffe
  
  “The Beyond”
  
  the Special Exhibitions Gallery
  
  The NC Museum of Art
  
  walkway to the museum
  
  walkway to museum
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  Posted in art, culture, life, photography | 2 Comments | Tagged Ecclesiastes 3, everything is beautiful, featured, Georgia O'Keeffe, Impressionism, Modernism, North Carolina Museum of Art
- when pets die – and we love them so much…
  
  Posted at 7:51 am by derekmaul, on November 9, 2018
  God created human beings with the capacity to reflect God’s nature. God created them male and female and poured the essence of the divine self into them equally. God blessed them: “Live in fullness! Have babies! Take charge and take care. Be responsible for life in the sea and life in the air. Care for every living thing. Love with abandon!” – Genesis 1:26 – author paraphrase
  
  Once in a while I will write in response to a question from one of my readers. Sometimes I will build on ideas that have come out in conversations. Today I’m posting in response to an assignment.
  
  “Daddy,” our daughter Naomi said, “please write a blog about pets tomorrow.”
  
  Well, she has a very good reason. Late Thursday afternoon, sadness upon sadness, her sweet dog Star said goodbye to the family who has loved her for so long and passed on into doggie eternity. She was old – almost fifteen – and had lived such a good and faithful life. But Star was very sick and she just couldn’t hang on any longer.
  
  This picture of the children with Star was taken just before they got on the bus to school Thursday morning.
  
  It’s really hard to let go of pets. They love us so honestly and without holding anything back and it is all we can do not to break down and weep out of gratitude because we know we never could have earned that level of affection. It is a gift, pure and simple; our pets are gifts, rare and beautiful, and our hearts break from all the love.
  
  In a serendipity earlier today, cleaning out my study, I unearthed this photo of my old dog, Mozart, snuggled by my feet under my writing desk. Moe has been gone probably fourteen years now. I was still a writer for the Tampa Tribune at the time and I swear I have never received such a deluge of mail as I did the week I published a column about his death.
  
  All Dogs (and Cats) go to Heaven:
  
  My friend Randy was a strong leader in his field and a prominent public figure. But he nearly broke apart when his cat died and I had to go over and visit him at his home. He wanted to know – not in an academic sense but on a heart level, deep and visceral – if his cat would be in heaven to greet him when he died.
  
  “Do you believe that God loves you?” I asked. “With all my heart,” he said. “Then I am convinced that your Muffin will be in heaven – because the God who loves you and knows you understands that it would make you happy.”
  
  I wasn’t blowing smoke. I was speaking from my heart.
  
  But this isn’t the first pet our daughter’s family has said goodbye to this year. Capriccio (the socially challenged kitty) lived with Naomi her entire adult life before passing on at the end of this July.
  
  So Naomi, and her husband Craig, and our wonderful grandchildren, are all going through a tough spot right now and we are crying for them too.
  
  My Theology of Pet Care:
  
  But here’s the thing, here’s the serendipity of it all. Back at the top of this post, in the scripture from Genesis, we read that caring for God’s creation is one of the things we do that aligns us with the nature of God.
  
  When we love like that, when we generously pour all of ourselves into the care of our animals, we are demonstrating the very nature of God. There is something holy, something beautiful, something divine about treating God’s creatures with respect, and care, and affection.
  
  We would not know this pain if we had not experienced such love. And for me, every time I interface with profound loss, I understand a little more that what I have been given is so much more than what is gone.
  
  Over time, if I love enough, I have such a reservoir of agape – ἀγάπη, agapē – to tap that I know I will never run dry of it, no matter how many tears are shed.
  
  I love you, Naomi. You always love so generously and well – DADDY
  
  God created human beings with the capacity to reflect God’s nature. God created them male and female and poured the essence of the divine self into them equally. God blessed them: “Live in fullness! Have babies! Take charge and take care. Be responsible for life in the sea and life in the air. Care for every living thing. Love with abandon!” – Genesis 1:26 – author paraphrase
  
  saying goodbye…
  
  Darth Maul
  
  Mozart Maul
  
  Beks and David with Star
  
  Capriccio
  
  Naomi with Star
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- “Wisdom is a shelter” – Ecclesiastes
  
  Posted at 11:40 am by derekmaul, on November 8, 2018
  Wisdom is a shelter – Ecclesiastes 7
  
  Over the past few weeks I have been sharing insights from the book of Ecclesiastes as we have uncovered them in my Wednesday evening men’s group. Ecclesiastes is part of the Wisdom Literature section of the Bible and the focus of the conversation always centers around finding meaning in life as opposed to “chasing after the wind.”
  
  I have this image in my mind of people constantly sifting through their lives, searching for what is true, what is of substance, what leads us toward purpose, and what really satisfies. There are so many shiny things that distract and stumbling blocks in the way, there is such a mountain of detritus and false information.
  
  Our experience of living in this culture is saturated with so much confusion that the quest for wisdom is seldom even engaged.
  
  So we gather – small groups of men in the context of a church family where we are encouraged to take hold of what the New Testament describes as the life that is truly life. We come, we ask ourselves hard questions, and we rest in the knowledge of God’s love, and we walk with Jesus, and we try to be open to the prompting of the Spirit.
  
  Treasure:
  
  At home this week I have been working on my desk and my study, sorting through the piles of stuff and accumulated papers and things I have simply crammed onto shelves and into corners because I didn’t know quite what to do with them. Along the way I have uncovered a few treasures, items I would not have discovered unless I had first been willing to address the fact that most of what I have been shuffling around was choking out what actually mattered.
  
  That’s when I found the photograph – one of my all-time favorites. That walk on the beach with Rebekah was one of those exhilarating moments where so much was in the process of coming together for us in the right way. It represents standing on the threshold of newness and possibility and redirection and faith. In this photograph I am not chasing after the wind but standing firm and understanding exactly where we are rooted and where we are going.
  
  Fast and Hard:
  
  Life from day to day offers an ongoing opportunity to engage what is meaningful and to put everything else in its proper place. This is a constant challenge because the false narrative and the invitation to chase after the wind comes at us fast and hard and from every direction.
  
  This is why it is imperative that we put ourselves in the place where God’s love is always front and center, where the message is clear, and where encouragement is never far away. Weekly worship, small-group Bible study, daily prayer and devotion as a family, engagement in mission, the accountability of vibrant Christian community.
  
  Gotta go – more on this tomorrow. Peace – DEREK
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- five photos and five thousand blessings…
  
  Posted at 10:56 am by derekmaul, on November 7, 2018
  Good Wednesday morning, everyone. The skies have cleared, the dust is settling from yesterday’s midterm elections, and it is – in the soulful stylings of Johnny Nash – A bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-Shiny day.
  
  So in that vein, splashed in sunshinyness, here is the “this week so far” update from beautiful Wake Forest.
  
  You’d better believe we voted!
  
  You can read yesterday’s post for more on how I feel about the current political climate. For today I simply want to reiterate how critically important it is that we:
  - participate,
  - vote intelligently rather than reactively,
  - respect one another,
  - raise the level of the conversation,
  - listen,
  - and stand firm against behavior from our leaders that works to undermine the moral integrity of our political process, trust in our institutions, and the important work of a free press.
  Fall Finally Lands:
  
  As the view from the church portico (above) indicates, a few of our trees have finally agreed to move on from the late summer. I’m looking forward to capturing some classic fall photos over the next couple of weeks, but we did already lose a lot of leaves to the recent tropical storms.
  
  Regardless, this is a spectacularly beautiful time of the year here in North Carolina. Fall serves as a daily invitation to leave my desk, open all the doors and windows, and enjoy the outdoors. I do believe that I will.
  
  I’m glad that we live in the woods, and I have become content to let the garden find its own way via my commitment to a program of limited maintenance and support of the term “Natural Area”. This may sound like a rationalization to avoid excessive gardening, but I like to call it “working with nature rather than against it.”
  
  Besides, I love the trees, I appreciate all the shade on the house, we never have to purchase mulch, and all I need to do is to mow occasionally and keep the walkways clear.
  
  It’s win-win.
  
  90-plus and going strong:
  
  If you remember reading about my dad’s 90th birthday party, back in July, you will be encouraged to hear that he is enjoying the outdoors when he can and he is often able to leave his walker at home.
  
  It is a unique blessing to be sixty-two years old and still be in daily contact with both my parents. I am continually grateful that they moved in next door, and that my work allows me the flexibility to help in the limited ways that I can.
  
  So there we have it, the midweek update. Five photographs representing just a fraction of the five-thousand blessings I could list if I had the time.
  
  Peace, and more peace – DEREK
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- about today’s midterm elections – please read this and pray for our country
  
  Posted at 8:22 am by derekmaul, on November 6, 2018
  He has told you, human one, what is good and
  what the Lord requires from you:
  to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God. – Micah 6:8
  
  Author Derek Maul lives and writes in Wake Forest, North Carolina
  
  I had a post just about ready to go for today, and I’ll let it stand after this new introduction. But then I woke up this morning thinking, “What issues matter the most to you on election day, Derek?” And I kept coming back to the following – not so much “issues” but neccessary qualities in those we elect to serve.
  1. Integrity.
  2. Humility.
  3. Honesty.
  4. Open-mindedness.
  5. Teachability.
  6. A willingness to reach across the aisle.
  7. A disdain for manipulation.
  8. Someone who does justice.
  9. Someone who loves mercy and embraces faithful love.
  10. Someone who walks humbly with their God.
  Today’s Elections:
  
  So it is election Day, 2018. Mid-terms. Lots of races. Tons of stuff to think about. Billions, literally billions, of dollars spent in advertising. I’d be cautious about those ads, though, there sure is a lot of obfuscation going on in politics this fall.
  
  Here’s the thing. How about we vote thoughtfully? And if you’re not sure because all the policy stuff you want to be thinking about has just gotten too complicated, or too muddied, I’d like to suggest that we vote based on the simple general idea of decency and character.
  
  I’d like to suggest that we vote based on the simple general idea of decency and character.
  
  Here’s the interesting truth. None of us are right all the time. Most of us – and I’m likely not much better than average in this regard – are wrong the majority of the time about the majority of things. This is why we would be doing ourselves a favor if we voted for people more inclined to listen than to pronounce judgment, and more likely to reach across the aisle than to double down on the party line.
  
  Compromise and humility:
  
  Think about the United States Constitution, for example. Do you believe for a minute that a delegate from one state had the thing written out just like we see it today, then argued and argued, yelled and screamed, pitched fits, belittled and put down everyone else, retrenched his position, riled up his base, and repeated all this again and again until the other twelve states finally agreed that he was right?
  
  Of course not. Compromise – informed, properly debated, prayed over, chipped away – was the order of the day.
  
  If you want your party/leader/position/argument to be right all the time then what you need is a dictatorship not a United States of America.
  
  That, I believe, is what this election is all about. I believe it is about justice, about mercy, about faithful love, and about walking humbly with God and with one another. I believe that our national character is on the line.
  
  – DEREK
  
  He has told you, human one, what is good and
  what the Lord requires from you:
  to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God. – Micah 6:8
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- “gratitude without purpose is simply a good feeling”
  
  Posted at 1:36 pm by derekmaul, on November 5, 2018
  Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love. This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him. – 1 John 4:7-9
  
  People often ask me about sources of inspiration I tap into as a writer. I do read quite a bit, but mostly – for me – it’s about paying attention. Or, as Rebekah put it when asked how she prepares for her Sunday message, “I try to stay awake.”
  
  Then sometimes I actually take notes during sermons. Yes, those little two-inch pencils in the pew racks turn out to be there for a reason, and I’ve been known to scribble all over my bulletin. Contrary to popular belief I do not get previews during the week, and the preacher does not do “dry runs” at home.
  
  So she was speaking about the relationship between gratitude and belief (click here for the message). There’s some good science out there now that confirms some of what we already know, that a grateful spirit is demonstrably associated with benefits such as lower blood pressure, positive emotions, and general wellbeing.
  
  Then Rebekah pointed out that – in a synthesis of the biological science, the social science, the theology, and the insight she brings to these messages – that “gratitude without purpose is simply a good feeling.”
  
  “Gratitude without purpose is simply a good feeling” – Rebekah Maul
  
  And good feelings, we know this, only get you so far.
  
  On belief, Rebekah traced the word back through several layers of definition, meaning, origin, and etymology. It turns out that at the heart of the deepest places, “believe” carries the root “be-love.” Use that in context and we find ourselves saying “I belove in God.” “I belove this church and its ministries.” “I belove in what we are doing here.”
  
  Love is the activating force that gives purpose to what we are grateful for, it is what turns our belief into action. I am deeply grateful for this life we embrace and enjoy, I belove Jesus and find that it is impossible to simply just sit there in church limited to feeling good, all warm and fuzzy inside with thanks and belief. No, love propels – compels – me into action. Love turns belief into service and purposeful change.
  
  So, thanks Rebekah for preaching stuff that inspires this writer. Thanks for making good theology such a catalyst for change.
  
  Come to think of it, I belove in us. I am grateful and I belove our life together.
  
  In love, and because of love – DEREK
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- Don’t pass up this invitation
  
  Posted at 7:46 am by derekmaul, on November 4, 2018
  I received a tradition from the Lord, which I also handed on to you: on the night on which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread. After giving thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this to remember me.” He did the same thing with the cup, after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Every time you drink it, do this to remember me.” – 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
  
  This is the invitation. This our privilege. Breaking bread not only with one another but with Jesus himself.
  
  Communion. The Lord’s Supper. Today. At Wake Forest Presbyterian Church. At a church near you. Don’t miss the invitation.
  
  Peace, love, promise, and blessings – DEREK
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Posted at 10:27 am by derekmaul, on November 13, 2018

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Posted at 9:58 am by derekmaul, on November 12, 2018

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All Dogs (and Cats) go to Heaven:

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Posted at 11:40 am by derekmaul, on November 8, 2018

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Posted at 10:56 am by derekmaul, on November 7, 2018

You’d better believe we voted!

Fall Finally Lands:

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Posted at 8:22 am by derekmaul, on November 6, 2018

Today’s Elections:

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