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Second Chances Part Two
Where does the time go? So many things happening every day. An incredible second chance for beloved family members – a second chance at creating the best possible family together in a place that they love. For me, confirmation again of victory over illness, a second chance for sure. And back to school, not the…
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Thinking About Eagles
I saw one again today, not that uncommon out here; I saw one yesterday, too. But they sure are fascinating. I’ve always loved birds, little birds that come to feed in your yard, big birds, birds of prey – hawks, owls, osprey, eagles. This morning’s message delivered by a guest preacher referenced eagles, too, one…
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An Angry Man
I was screamed at, flipped off – with both hands, no less – and called a name I really hate!! All by a guy with at least three small children watching him and in front of a store employee! Mentioned the incident to my ErinLee and sure enough, a similar thing happened to her…
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LAND OF THE FREE ….
Coming up on the Fourth of July. While it’s not a holiday I’m sentimental about like Easter and Christmas, I’ve been thinking about freedom and bravery. Are you free? Are you brave? The song says we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I know brave women who’ve fought…
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About Those Cows …
Toward the end of the last post I asked if your fences were secure. Now I’m asking, can they ever be secure, really? My belief system says yes, they can, but not because of what I might do. And not necessarily in the way I might think. The farmer who came to corral the cows…
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The Tyranny of Should
You should go … You shouldn’t …. I should… I should have …. A loaded word, one syllable, indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate. So the subject, in this case moi, has an obligation to do whatever follows the should. How does that work? Who’s deciding…
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“It Doesn’t Happen in a Neighborhood Like This”
That’s what the neighbor said on TV. Another woman is dead, killed this morning in a nearby county by her husband and people are shocked because it doesn’t happen where they live. Sound familiar? It sure does to me. I’ve been there and even said those words. People in my former neighborhood weren’t out brawling…
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Jump Out of the Boat!!
As mentioned earlier, we attended a great church, Seacoast Church, just blocks from Meghan’s apartment, on Christmas Eve, and then a satellite campus in Mount Pleasant on the weekend. The young preacher had a great message and I have two points scribbled in large letters on a piece of paper that were made during the…
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AFFIRMATIONS aka LITTLE SPARKLES Part One
If you live where I do, known by several names, among them Lake Country or the Northwoods, you may know what I mean by Little Sparkles. When it’s really cold as it is today, minus four degrees this morning, thankfully no wind, the snow becomes drier and it appears that someone shook glitter over it. …