Tag: hope
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Unlimited Hope; Unimaginable Grace
There are many who are anxiously awaiting the end of this year. As if 2020 has been the worst of the worst for everyone in the world. It has been a challenge for all of us globally. The pandemic has colored our experience and given us new norms and words to describe our experience: masks,…
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The Crazy Of COVD Christmas
I love holidays, but Christmas has always been my favorite. A time for family festivities, for celebrating traditions, for gatherings and parties. Most of all for remembering the Gift of love God gave us at Christmas. This year, however, it may be easier to hate this season than love it. To agonize through it rather…
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Charlie Brown Would Be Proud
One of my all-time favorite Christmas cartoons is “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, which came out in 1965. It’s Christmas experienced by the characters from Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip, a comic full of the angst, failures, and the social ineptness in a group of kids. People loved it because it reflected life, which is…
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Dream A Little Dream–And Then What?
Brooklyn, at four, asks a lot of deep questions. I doubt many adults have their minds pursue the unique inquiries she makes. Spiritual, philosophical, larger-than-life issues that she is truly curious about. She explained how she doesn’t like the dark. I agreed wholeheartedly; I’ve never been fond of the dark. As a child, I was…
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Stop And Smell The Hope
One of novelist Rita Mae Brown’s characters in her 1983 novel, “Sudden Death”, made the statement, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Repeated actions, with no change, typically bring the same results. Adults get this. Children, however, are different. There is a beautiful naivete in the very…
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