Tag: religious leaders
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Avoid Hilly Terrain
photo courtesy of Claudio Testa on Unsplash One of my Dad’s favorite encouragements for us growing up was “Not every hill is worth dying on.” His focus on picking our battles was practical–not everything is significant enough to be bothered about. Stress is part of life; on any given day, some things potentially could annoy…
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Phoniness Falls Flat
The cold snap continues. Our plants are suffering; they have no capacity for freezing temperatures. I’ve tried covering them to little or no avail–the wind has picked up and blows all the covering cloths around the yard. People are better able to care for themselves in frigid temperatures. Down the street from us, our daughter…
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Who Are You Fooling?
Halloween originated from the Celtic festival of Samhain, a festival marking the beginning of the new year on November 1. The Celts also believed that, on the night before the new year began, the boundaries of the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred, so ghosts were allowed to return to earth. People…
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Reimagined Life
As family was slowly leaving our home to return to their personal spaces, we had one more activity to accomplish. We had four birthdays to celebrate. January is a big month for celebration for us. Our grandson Nolan was born on January 8, our son, Mark on January 13, and grands Callum and Mack were…
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Pause and Ponder
Don’t let his incredibly interesting outfit confuse you. This young man is a deep thinker. Great thinkers often are quirky people with no concern for societal conventions. Like matching clothes. Throughout history, people who think and act differently have been ridiculed. Some of our most significant ideas have come from people others have seen as…
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