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Monday Meandering #11

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Gratitude Every Day

It’s an American season of giving thanks! I know that it doesn’t seem to be true if you only listen to the cultural beat or the daily news. You may argue Mary it is only one day, not a month or more. I would remind us all that that one day we call Thanksgiving came out of the discipline and practice of a people who modeled daily thanks in the midst of life we can…

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You asked

When I was young, I had the answers but nobody asked me questions. Now that I am old. people ask me questions but I don’t have answers.  Elizabeth Elliot I loved listening to Gateway to Joy when I was a younger mom. And although it stopped airing in 2001 you can still listen to the wisdom of Elizabeth Elliot using the link provided. Her words and this particular quote so resonates with my life. When…

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Doing it scared

I am at the stage of life where the weddings I am honored to attend are our friends’ children. At the most recent wedding I attended, I was sitting with couples who were all finished with their direct participation in educating their children. One woman stated that those years were particularly joyful. What she said next made me pause. She said, “I would do it over again, and this time I would know what I’m…

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Habits of Connection

Do you want to know the best habits of any relationship? This is so simple that it is easy to miss. Really easy to miss. That’s how it is in life. When something is so simple we think anyone and everyone can do this. But they don’t. We think we do this but we don’t. We don’t notice when we don’t do it but funny enough we do notice when others don’t do it. With…

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