Tag: mercy
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Where’s The Restraint?
photo courtesy of David Garrison on Pexels I lost my temper the other day. This is not unusual, though I’m an adaptable person, going with the flow rather than expressing my anger in an outward way. I’m also a passionate person who sees a principle, a truth, being ignored and will respond with a heightened…
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Was That A Good Idea?
In the constant pursuit of interesting and fun things to do with family, on Christmas Eve we played “Blindfolded Cookie Decorating”. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Everyone has a partner, one of whom is blindfolded. There is a cutout sugar cookie in front of the one who can’t see, with a plethora of colored…
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We Need To Get It Right
The island country of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea has celebrated Christmas for centuries with people crafting what are known as Nativity Cribs, the name common years ago for the feeding box used by livestock, now called mangers. In 2020 a competition was held, with ten of these beautiful scenes displayed at the Museum of…
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The Beet Went On
My friend Kourtney is a busy woman. With a husband and three sons and a job she enjoys, she manages to fill her days moving at near the speed of light. Until she couldn’t. Dashing through the grocery store to pick up food for her family, she rounded the produce aisle of a national store…
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