Tag: God
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Could You Please Say That Again? Differently?
In a perfect world–well, in my perfect world–people would always understand each other. No matter what language is used. I’m a mono-lingual American. One of those. I want to understand what others are saying. Or what emotion they choose to do it in. (Can you imagine emoticons popping from our mouths like so much spit?)…
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I Resolve To…Who Am I Kidding?
Having just experienced the holiday season knee-deep in food preparation and food gifts (what says love more than something from your oven?) and food consumption, I find it comical that we enter the new year with thoughts of how we can improve our lives. How we can make changes to become our better selves. What,…
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After The Wrapping Is Ripped Away
Hours spent searching for the best possible gifts. (It took some divine intervention–I hate shopping.) Time, energy and a certain skill with tape to wrap the purchased gifts. (The end always slips off the lip of the tape dispenser, making it close to impossible to peel it off the roll.) Making sure everything was pulled…
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Hope Isn’t Hype
It’s easy for it to get lost in the shuffle of busy hearts, overflowing minds and crowded schedules. Hope. I feel that if I don’t put it on my to-do list, it wafts away like smoke from a blown-out candle. Don’t forget to hope. Check. It’s really what this season is all about. Not Happy…
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May Your Tree Not Be Tipsy
I’ve been amazed at how heavy some of the new Christmas ornaments have become. It would take branches made of rock to hold some of them. Regular Paul Bunyan trees. Or really strong fake trees. I’ve got a thing for snowman ornaments. Quite possibly it has a lot to do with not being able to…