Joe Ragan

Were you good or bad? Did you get a bag of coal? A stocking full of your favorites?
I got together with part of the family on Christmas eve. It was great to see the kids. Then on Christmas day, we had lunch at my oldest sisters.
We followed through with preparing [...]

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I was in a bookstore on Wednesday. I was standing in line behind a young man and his girlfriend. His turn came and he wanted to return the gift card someone had given him for Christmas. It was hard for me to keep my composure.
After being told he couldn’t get [...]

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At the time I type this, it is December 23. It is a bright and sunny morning and 34 degrees in Wichita Falls, Texas. There will be no snow for Christmas this year (but living in Texas I didn’t expect there to be…).
In 1975 there was snow here on Christmas. That is [...]

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Just as I feared, the weather has warmed up the last few days in north Texas. Right now it is 64 degrees. While it did get cold for a few days and we had snow/ ice in Wichita Falls, I knew that this was coming.
On Monday, I visited a couple serving in Macau [...]

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I’m in Fort Worth and have been since last Saturday. It has been great to hang around with some friends, talk to others on the phone.
The hardest part is not having access to the internet except when I sit in the World Mission Center at Southwestern. (Thanks to the WMC for having free [...]

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Well, the warm temperatures we have been experiencing in Texas are gone for now. An artic cold front swept across Wichita Falls at noon on Wednesday and temps fell 20 degrees in a few hours. Such is life here.
Thursday morning I was woken up by thunder moving through. First rain fell and [...]

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