Randy Elrod's Blog, page 45

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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I Am Stunned By What Has Happened The Past Two Days

31 people have now given to help “Build The First Kalien Retreat Cabin.” That is not many people considering the thousands of people I have…

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The Lost Art of the Long Walk

On average, we are awake for 15 hours each day and at least 10 of those precious hours are spent on our ever-broadening behinds.We consume…

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The Amazing Story of Kalien

In 2002, burned out andstrugglingto find my soul working as aCreative Arts Pastor in one of America’s largest megachurches, Ifirst dreamed of creating aspacewhere encouragement…

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Ten Observations After Nine Months In The Wilderness (#8 Will Probably Shock You)

1) Less But Better—I am learning to filter through my activities, friends, needs, longings, and opportunities in order to select only those that are truly…

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