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Coincidence?
Last week I was under the weather. I had already made a big pot of chicken and rice soup over the weekend and I had a book arrive on my doorstep that I’d promised to read and offer a review. Friends were checking in on me and my husband was taking good care of me. […]
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What It Takes to Really Experience Change
Twice a week I go to a deep water exercise class. After several months I’ve begun to see a pattern. There are those who come to work out and there are those who come to tread water and chat. The working out group are getting stronger and hardly miss a class. Some of us are […]
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Lessons From a Forgotten Purse
We’d left our home over an hour ago, on our way to Kansas to visit family. That’s somewhere around 12 hours in the car to make the trip. I thought of something I wanted to text a friend and reached for my purse….it wasn’t there! My first thought spoken aloud to my husband, “I forgot […]
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Choosing A Word
There is a lot of talk about choosing a word for 2017. The idea of this word is to choose something that will guide your actions and development for the year. We recognize that words are powerful. They shape our thoughts and actions. Our words tend to reflect what’s already in our hearts and minds. […]
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Powerful Words
My husband calls me a wordsmith. And it’s true, for me words hold a great deal of power. Words can heal, words can wound, words can fight our battles, or bring peace in order to avoid the battle. I’ve become increasingly aware that I have a tendency at times to use my words to wound. […]
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My Own Christmas Miracle
It’s the season where we think about miracles, let me tell you about one that happened in my life… Twenty-five years ago my brother died a few days before Christmas. He and his children had been badly burned in a fire that involved the Christmas tree. It was a live tree, and following an electrical […]
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Sorting Out the Truth
Today, anyone with internet access has the ability to make their voice heard around the world. Many write from places of strong opinion, strong emotion or humor. Much of what is written will resonate with you and much will repel you. How do you sort it out? You compare it to truth. As a Christ […]
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Crimson Leaves
I went for a walk in the woods, a place I love to walk. It was late autumn and the trees had lost most of their leaves. I shuffled along a path that was filled with leaves grown brown and crisp beneath my feet. As I rounded a curve and came upon a tree that […]
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Light In The Dark
Now is the time to shine! Don’t let the news of the day drag you down. Do not submit to cultural norms. Remember who you belong to. Remember the promises you have been given. Don’t fear change. Just keep your eyes focused on the light then you too, can be the light just as you were intended to be.
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What Fills You Up?
Today I was offered a consulting job. Back in the world of work I knew before I retired. Developing an on-line course for the public health community. This is a world where I know what I’m doing. A world where I’m an ‘expert’ or at least competent. The pay wasn’t bad and it would involve […]