93. Another Take On Pennies In my fourth entry in Things I’ve Learned I wrote about Wayne Dyer and his feelings of abundance when he came upon a penny in the street and picked it up. Just recently I read about Annie Dillard’s take on pennies and how...
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September 19, 2012 Ann
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92. Let It Go #2 Just a couple of days ago I wrote about L.I.G. which stands for Let It Go. And I wrote those words referring to frustration, obsessing, being critical. And I’d like to continue the concept further—a lot further. I’d like to put it into...
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September 18, 2012 Ann
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91. Structure of Dailies I love creating the structure of dailies—some things that I do every day (or at least almost every day). For a number of years now I have read the Upper Room Disciplines as I eat breakfast. Then I discovered that I could do quite...
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September 17, 2012 Ann
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90. L.I.G or Lig Sometimes phrases help me out. Sometimes they are able to interrupt something that I really don’t want to be doing. And this is one I’m newly adopting. It’s for those times when I am going on and on about something and getting nowhere. It’s...
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September 16, 2012 Ann
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89. Grace It has taken a long time but these are some of my thoughts about “grace.” In some ways I think we are too human to really understand grace; and we are too judgmental to “do” grace. When we are angry with someone, we find it hard...
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September 15, 2012 Ann
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88. God Promises To Be Enough I wrote this song as a part of a Vacation Church School curriculum. Later I discovered that two lines in particular spoke to me personally. One is: God is with you each day. So many times I can be rushing or meandering...
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September 14, 2012 Ann
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87. Write the Stories Down I have written down pieces and parts of my life almost all of my eighty years. I think there are many benefits for doing this and it’s one of the reasons that I started a writing group in the fall of 1984. I...
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September 13, 2012 Ann
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86. Not Giving In to the Stereotype On July 15th, I mentioned my puppet Josa (a brown sea otter) that I used in the nursing home and in clowning. She has taught me some lessons in being adventurous. One day I had used her at the nursing home...
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September 12, 2012 Ann
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85. We Are Many – We Are One This is the latest song I have written. It seems appropriate for September 11th to me because in this decade since the tragedy happened we have grown in divisiveness, become involved in two wars, and moved farther away from peace....
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September 11, 2012 Ann
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84. Stay in the Present Have you ever seen that magnet that says: Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift— That’s why it’s called the present. I confess I can’t do it all the time—I stew over yesterdays, and I worry about the...
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September 10, 2012 Ann
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