Even with the hope of moving from stay-at-home to safe-at-home every one of us has been rocked by unimaginable and rapid changes in our normal routines during this COVID crisis. Long before the pandemic was on our horizon my youngest wrote a presentation on peace. Her presentation is written in a thematic religious reading format. In this format, the speaker practices weaving together scripture with her choice of literature to write a speech on a…
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Well Begun is half done Aristotle Some things in life get started for us! Like the NEW YEAR. So Happy NEW YEAR! A year full of possibility. How did the New Year begin for you? Did it begin with anticipation or anxiety? For some of us, The New Year is like a fresh book at the beginning of a school year! But for many already a mere 6 days into this fresh book the spine…
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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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“Redeemed pain is more impressive than removed pain.” Philip Yancy Redeemed pain. While this resonates with what I know to be good and true it’s still such a hard pill to swallow. I can look back in the rearview mirror of my life and believe that God redeemed the pain in the loss of a child, in living through cancers, in the loss of relationships and death of loved ones. But it is in each new…
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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…
11 CommentsWe all love stories and as soon as we hear, “Once upon a time…” we’re hooked. So with the start of a new school year, let’s revisit a familiar tale. Once upon a time in a land far away, a father was devastated to learn that soon after the birth of his one and only precious child a curse was placed upon her life. Now, this curse predicted his only child and daughter would perish…
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