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Christian Service Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/christian-service/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:11:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/cindydeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cindydeboericon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christian Service Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/christian-service/ 32 32 184530663 It’s Been Ten Years… So Why Am I (still) Alive? https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:11:32 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4367 On the day before Thanksgiving, 2013, in a closet-sized, moldy-smelling exam room, a University of Michigan pulmonologist confirmed my fear: the shortness of breath I’d been experiencing was due to a rare, progressive, degenerative, and often terminal lung disease, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). Paul and I sobbed the entire drive home from Ann Arbor. Not surprisingly, a […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/feed/ 10 4367 What a Diet Coke can teach us about CNN, Newsmax and political divides https://cindydeboer.com/2021/03/11/how-a-can-of-diet-coke-can-kill-us-or-give-us-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-a-can-of-diet-coke-can-kill-us-or-give-us-life https://cindydeboer.com/2021/03/11/how-a-can-of-diet-coke-can-kill-us-or-give-us-life/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:22:06 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4170 I confess. I have a dangerously sick addiction to Diet Coke. I know, I know, I know – it’s terrible for me and it’s going to kill me. I’m pretty sure, however, my lung-sucking lung disease is gonna get me first. But actually, I’m more afraid the way we VIEW Diet Coke could kills us […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2021/03/11/how-a-can-of-diet-coke-can-kill-us-or-give-us-life/feed/ 5 4170 The Pond Scum Exchange (Why voting matters less than you think) https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:32:35 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=3686 When we bought our sucky crack-house we thought the fantastic view of the zoo/park across the street might possibly redeem the pitiful structure. However, the park struggles financially and some things have become a bit of an eyesore. All summer long our park pond has looked like this: Our neighborhood Facebook group recently debated the […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/feed/ 14 3686 Lessons from the brain dead https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-from-the-brain-dead https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:19:10 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1464 I was absent from one of the most transformative events in my life. It happened to my husband while in Guatemala but left an indelible print on me and I’ve never been the same since. Back in the day when we believed visiting Guatemala regularly would bring lasting change to the country, we often included […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/feed/ 14 1464 Jesus Ain't Your Sexy Valentine https://cindydeboer.com/2019/02/14/jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine https://cindydeboer.com/2019/02/14/jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:41:20 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=960 Clean water crisis. Human-Trafficking. Immigration. Orphan care. Affordable Housing. Failing Education Systems. Gun Violence. Teen-age pregnancy. Sitting in this hip coffee shop I can hear twenty-somethings all around me talking about what’s wrong with humanity and how they aim to fix it. Millennials are raising the bar for the rest of us. They’re hyper-aware of […]

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