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Where We Love is Home…
Dear Reader: *** Added to the blog at 10:00 am…..Jake will arrive in about an hour….just got the call…I am off….I am so happy…the best birthday present ever…one for the memory books! ‘Where we love...
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Pleasing Only One…the ONE!
Dear Reader: Guidepost decided to take an excerpt from one of next year’s (2015) Mornings with Jesus devotionals to share on-line. After I read it I thought to myself…”Yep…that used to me… but I am...
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Learning from Lilica…
Dear Reader: I don’t write many stories about animals as a norm but this story moved me so much…I had to share it. It brought home, once again, how much we can all learn from each other on this …...
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North, South, East, West….Nope…Up!
Dear Reader: When we are considering options to serious life problems…impending divorce, death of a loved one, a serious illness (yourself or a loved one)….don’t we pray for a sign to help us make...
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Location, Location, Location…
Dear Reader: The other day I came across three anecdotes whose themes all deal with how location can tell a story in itself. Here are three examples: 1) Availability A man applied for a job as a...
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Our Snarky Hearts…
Dear Reader: “Snarky“….irritable or cranky. As of Sunday afternoon (yesterday) our entire family is bordering on a bad case of the “snarkies.” John said he got about four hours’ sleep Saturday...
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Creating Our Own World …
Dear Reader: Like I predicted…a good night’s sleep and breakfast out yesterday morning with friends….and I am a new woman…sparky…not snarky. Eva Cate helped me pull out some of the Halloween...
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Doing Well….or…Doing Good?
Dear Reader: When I typed in this phrase all kinds of grammatical websites popped up explaining when and how to use “well” and when to use “good.” If one is an English teacher…this is probably...
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Passing Through the Magic Moon Gate to Storyland…
Dear Reader: Tuesday morning when the ethereal sun appeared again (after what has seemed like an eternity of gloomy rainy days) I felt like a kid who landed in Disney World! I went to Eva’s restaurant...
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The Beginning of Wisdom…Try a Shrug
Dear Reader: Wednesday I took a paper slip number as I went into Time-Warner to pay my monthly bill…Since it was (literally) the first of the month (and the last day for me to pay – obviously like...
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“People are like Stained Glass Windows”…
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning when I woke up I came into my creative room (where I write my blogs) and the morning sun was pouring through my colored glass window that Mandy made for me several...
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Make Your Life a Story Worth Telling…
Dear Reader: Obviously my life story must not be worth telling….because my computer froze right after ” Dear Reader.” I tried all my old tricks….but nothing worked and I finally gave up late Saturday...
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Getting a Second Chance the First Time Around
Dear Reader: Don’t we sometimes get a feeling that we haven’t shown up for our own life? It is a pretty scary epiphany. That is what was going on in my head in July of 2010. I was two … Continue...
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Feeling Crabby? Come on…No Way on Such a Beautiful Day!
Dear Reader: Rutledge is a star….well, actually a crab…but you get the idea! He had this Halloween picture made last year and yesterday his picture was chosen to lead off the front page advertisement...
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Simply and Sublimely Good Vibrations
Dear Reader: We, humans, are such creatures of habit…more so than we tend to want to recognize. Last year I was involved in several community initiatives with Samantha Moore and her wonderful crew at...
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“The Filling Station” or Second Chances
Dear Reader: When Elizabeth Brown’s most famous poem “The Filling Station” was published in the mid-sixties…I remember studying it in my English class my junior year in high school. At that time it...
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Swapping Stories with God…
Dear Reader: I was so happy to hear back from Ambika yesterday telling me that the author, Donald Miller’s, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, idea of Heaven (starting with a storytelling session in...
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It’s “BOO” Time Again!
Dear Reader: It really is fun (and quite convenient) to have a nickname like “Boo” at this time of the year! My nickname started in college…stayed fairly dormant through the later family years...
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Watching Our Soul Grow Up…
Alex Grey, noted spiritual painter, created a series of paintings on the soul…called the “Progress of the Soul.” From the beginning of life til’ death and beyond Grey drew how the soul progressed...
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God’s Creative Ways to Reach Us
Dear Reader: Yesterday on the CBS Sunday Morning Show…Squire Rushnell, the author of Godwink Stories, was interviewed as a part of a program about the role of coincidence in our lives. Rushnell...
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