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Mary’s Monday Meanderings in March

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To breathe or not to breathe

Sweat beads glistening, Cold, breath sucking, skin tingling Plunge in the pool!–Water Haiku I love the water! Just anticipating diving in causes my breathing to change. I grew up near the water, on the water and I’ve spent so much time in the water. In high school, I worked at the local pool life-guarding and teaching swimming. I spent almost eight years of my life working out in the pool year-round in the early mornings and…

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What We Give Away

At funerals we celebrate what people gave away rather than what they kept for themselves. Andy Stanley This past weekend, we gathered to honor Gary’s Dad’s life. A life that seems to be at once so ordinary and yet not so. Bill and Charlotte grew up together all through their primary and secondary school years. He went off to the Navy and as soon as she finished teacher’s college they married. Thus began the moves,…

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Little love snippets to share

No culture war diatribe here. Just some simple snippets to share. I’ll be posting these on my Instagram stories @gunthermary each day as we head into Valentine’s Day. For my blog readers, I posted them all together. You can right-click on the images to copy or save and send them in a text with a note to a loved one. These are some of my favorite authors. I don’t know about you but I need…

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Crying in the grocery aisle

It had been a painfully overwhelming week. Deep disappointment with people close and dear to me and their decisions were running through my mind. Decisions that while not mine to make would make for a path that I could only anticipate for them to be difficult and deathly. I was grateful we had enough relationship that they let me know what was going on but also keenly aware they weren’t interested in or swayed by…

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What limits you?

A little over a year ago, I found myself sitting in a large conference room listening to a speaker guide us through an idea that I had been thinking about and sharing with my team over the past few years: Limiting Belief. Limiting beliefs are those ideas and tapes you play in your head that stop you from growing in life. The funny thing about limiting beliefs is that once you’re aware of them you…

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