Tag: life
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Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap. Galatians 6:7 Science refers to it as Cause and Effect; for every action there is a reaction. The entire universe operates on the Law of Sowing and Reaping. Agriculture is the best example. Even the financial world…
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We had a kitchen faucet that leaked. It was a slow drip. The only way to stop it was to move the handle slightly to the left when turning it off. We lived with this special faucet for approximately seven years – which was 6 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days too long,…
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My mom and I share a common trait. It is refer to as white coat syndrome. This is when you go to the doctor and the people in white coats, which really doesn’t exist anymore, takes your blood pressure and everyone get concerned because you are a few seconds away from a stroke or perhaps…
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I’ve been thinking (and talking) a lot about inner tubes in the past few months. It’s an image that we use in the book Living Unstuck and it’s an image that has etched itself into my brain. The idea of living life as if we are resting on an inner tube and gently floating through…
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There is a large glass vase that sits on my fireplace. It has the words Lest You Forget etched into it. It’s meant to be a marker, a way of remembering. We need markers in our life to help us remember. As young parents we forget what it was like to be a kid. As…
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I heard him say, “I just can’t forgive myself. I feel so guilty…” I’ve heard others say this very thing but on that day his words hit me in an odd way. What would cause someone to not accept forgiveness? Why would anyone want to hold on to the past that badly? “I feel guilty…” I played…
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As 2016 came to an end, I contemplated what adventures were awaiting the arrival of 2017. I like making resolutions, but last year I simplified it to three words: Books, Trips, Easy. As I’ve begun thinking about my words for 2018, I decided to look back and evaluate my 2017 results. Books. YES! it was…
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Every been tubing? It was a favorite summer activity as a teen. We’d drive to the middle of nowhere, pay our fee and climb on an old school bus painted hunter green. With a strong enough imagination, you could pretend you were traveling with the Partridge Family. The bus would transport us up a winding…
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In the past few weeks it’s been made very apparent to me that I’ve created a bit of a nightmare. It started by cracking the door open just a tad and suddenly I realized it was taking all my strength to keep this monster contained. The monster is made up of all the extra responsibilities…
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I just recently realized what the saying, Six to one, half-a-dozen to another means. All my life I thought it referred to a mathematical equation – like a ratio. 6 is to 1 like 1/2 of 12 is to another; another equalling X, thus 6:1 = 6:X. The equation made sense but what was mind…
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Ever feel like all you do is shovel other people’s shit? Before I explain, I need to make a little adjustment. You see I grew up in a house where we ate chicken chests and we wore top underwear. There were some words such as breast or bra that were just not appropriate. So the…
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It’s a simple equation; negative energy fuels negative energy. Doesn’t matter if it’s on opposite ends of an argument or coming from opposing opinions; negative energy fuels negative energy. Remember your parents saying, “You can’t fight fire with fire!” This time they were actually correct. Fighting fire with fire – usually creates a bigger fire.…
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There’s a clock on the wall in my bathroom that isn’t audible until 2:00 in the morning when it echoes in my ears. From my bed I can hear every second that passes in the early morning hours. Time is such an interesting thing to me. On one hand it seems to be completely man…
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“You don’t want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.” It’s a great line from the movie Sleepless in Seattle. Two woman, sitting in their living room, sobbing as they watch a scene from the classic An Affair to Remember. The one says, “I want to be in love.”…