Category: Reading & Thriving
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Love Can Build a Bridge
On April 30, 2022 country music star Naomi Judd died. Her daughters announced that they had lost their mother to mental illness. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we […]
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Choose to Love
Like many church-going children, I memorized Bible verses. Sometimes I did it because it just kind of happened. I had heard the verse repeated so often — like John 3:16, “For God so loved the world…” —that it took root in my memory. Sometimes I did it because a Sunday school teacher encouraged it — […]
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I Saw Jesus on Wednesday Mornings in Mechanicsburg
Having been raised in the church, there are quite a few stories from the Bible extremely familiar to me – stories like the creation, Noah’s Ark, Jonah, David and Goliath, the birth of Jesus, the good Samaritan and the Prodigal son…and, of course, the Easter story. I have read these stories more times than I […]
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3:00 AM Thoughts Bombarding Me
Last night I was awake until well after 3:00 AM. It’s the second night in the last week that I’ve had like this. Some nights I can tell it’s going to be like that and I take melatonin to help out. Other nights, like these two, I don’t see it coming. Then by the time […]
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Odd Ball – Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer
Odd is a word we often use and we use it in various ways. odd one out, odd ball, odd numbers odd squad odd lot odd duck odd jobs odd socks odd fellow and the very famous Odd Couple Dictionaries offer several definitions that adequately explain those usages above and the word all by […]
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You Are Worth It – Do It For Those Who Love You
I have a cautionary tale for you. It comes with an alert at the end so stick with it. It starts with a terrible week and a half and ends with this writing. I went to Florida for a few days last week to visit Dad. Bernadette, his partner, wasn’t feeling well. She told me […]
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An Appreciation of Doing Nothing
Anyone who knows me or who takes a quick look through the topics of this blog will know one thing for certain about me. I hate February. I’ve written enough about that and won’t subject anyone to that topic right now. February is the low point of the year for me because it is the […]
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Two Kinds – Is There a Third?
Yesterday I wrote a post called “Two Kinds” and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. It was, I hope obviously, a bit tongue in cheek. There are never only two in anything! The world is just not black and white — there are hundreds of shades of grey! (not just 50) And, I wouldn’t […]
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Two Kinds
Many ways have been offered up for figuring out human beings. Are you type A or type B? (And everyone understands the question). There are studies and tests to determine what Enneagram you are, what personality type you have in the Myers-Briggs profiles, which of the Big Five Personality Traits you have (a new one to […]
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Check All Boxes That Apply
In November I had the opportunity to get to know a wonderful young man better. I first met him at my niece’s wedding when he was dating my other niece, the bride’s sister. In November I got to spend some time with him during the few days we spent in Mexico for his wedding to […]