Randy Elrod's Blog, page 43

Ten Slippery Words That Have Defined My Life, My Goals, and My Demons

In life, I have constantly found myself thinking: “We are using the same words, but do we mean the same thing?” In the field of…

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What exactly is Kalien Retreat?

Days of rest and relaxation are the norm at Kalien Retreat. The 55 verdant acres of forested Appalachian Mountain foothills have been set aside for…

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If Doing These Things Means I’m A Christian, Then I Don’t Want To Be A Christian

—If voting for Trump means I’m a Christian, then I don’t want to be a Christian. —If demeaning Colin Kaepernick standing up (or humbly kneeling)…

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My Goodbye Letter — Randy Elrod

goodbye I’ve decided to say goodbye. For real. To my 51,545 followers on social networks. To put that number in perspective, it is equivalent to…

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No Dead Space Allowed

As a young impressionable worship pastor, one of the first hard lessons I learned from my Pastor was to “fill in the dead spaces”. For…

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Why Kalien? Why Now?

As I struggle mightily with the two—what seems to be—inevitable presidential candidates for the upcoming election for President of the United States, I feel a…

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True Love is Rare, True Friendship is Rarer. Three Essential Qualities of A Priceless Friend.

One of the great revelations of my life is coming to full consciousness (to wholeness) by facing my contradictions, making friends with my mistakes and…

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A Real-Life (But Very Short) Fairy Tale by Randy Elrod (aka Elrond) ‪#‎Kalien‬

(with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien and F. Scott Fitzgerald) In Two of Two Thousand, a man named Elrond dreamed of a place in the Misty…

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Some Impromptu Thoughts This Snowy Day at Kalien

As I write, I’m snuggled in my artist cabin The Hawk’s Nest in the Appalachian mountainssurrounded on all sides by the a snowfall that most…

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Home At Last

For the past fourteen years I have located a lot of my dreams in a place to be called Kalien. Many times it felt like…

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