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Celebrate
50. Celebrate! I have friends who know how to celebrate. For over forty years I have watched their whole family celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, highschool graduations, special times. And as they celebrate, they are acknowledging as a family that each person deserves recognition. They are…
I Can Do One Thing for Peace
49. I Can Do One Thing for Peace I write this on August 6th, the day of the bombing of Hiroshima, and I remind myself each year that it is up to me to work for peace. Some years ago when I lived in…
Yogi Berra Says…
48. Yogi Berra Says There’s a quote (among many) from Yogi Berra that says: If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Doesn’t it make it you smile? And yet, there’s wisdom there. Sometimes you come to a fork in the…
Jesus Loves Me
47. Jesus Loves Me I don’t remember it because I was so young, but my mother used to tell me that when I was two years old, I stood in front of the church and sang “Jesus Loves Me” all by myself. When I…
Mystery Box
46. Mystery Box There are answers I will never have. There are things I may always wonder about and not know for sure. And most of the time that’s o.k. with me. At the Bible Study I have attended for the past nine years,…
A Wisdom Story
45. A Wisdom Story I can’t remember exactly where I got this story but it has been a powerful one for me and I am still trying to learn from it. There is a story of monks who lived in a monastery in the…
You Reap What You Sow
35. You Reap What You Sow In 2nd Corinthians 9:6, it says: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. The grandchild story that illustrates that for me is when Zack and I…
Four Colors
43. Four Colors For the last seven or eight months I have been getting up early enough each morning to do a brief routine of exercise (10 minutes) and then sit in bed with a wooden lap labyrinth, a clip board with a mandala…
Follow Your Impulse
42. Follow Your Impulse In the days when I went into the city for an entire day, Fifth Avenue was one of the streets where I made stops. One day I passed Steuben Glass, pausing at the window to look at the magnificent pieces…
The Kids on the Couch
41. The Kids on the Couch Years ago when I took a Pastoral Studies Program from Blanton Peale Institute, one of the instructors was Pat Briegs. After I finished that two year program, I saw Pat for another two years with her being therapist…
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Mama and Me
