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    Is Your Grip on Comfort too Tight??

    Is Your Grip on Comfort too Tight??

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    "Slow": The New Cuss Word.

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    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #4 Teach me to Listen

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    Is Your Grip on Comfort too Tight??

    Is Your Grip on Comfort too Tight??

    Don’t be shocked to find upon arriving at mid-life, that you still don’t have a clue about “letting go.” Here’s your fair warning people!...

    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #1 The Weary Life.

    The Weary Life Though I barely come, I come. Though I am weary, I search. Your invitation has roused me and given me the strength to...
    The Frozen Landscape Feels Like My Weary Soul...

    The Frozen Landscape Feels Like My Weary Soul...

    Each day I drive past this stream insulated by the winter landscape. It leaves me contemplative and thoughtful. When I say it is...
    Change: Can't [don't] Live Without It!

    Change: Can't [don't] Live Without It!

    I’ve always hated change. Control and comfort, now that’s my thing. But wow, resisting change has not served me well. Slowly, after...
    "My Teenager Makes me Feel Crazy!" Session #3: Caught in the middle of your teenager’s need for...

    "My Teenager Makes me Feel Crazy!" Session #3: Caught in the middle of your teenager’s need for...

    Here we go parents! Session #3 will normalize your life! Every parent of teenagers is facing this. The push and pull with your kids is...
    A Lenten Pandemic: get to the watchtower.

    A Lenten Pandemic: get to the watchtower.

    At the end of every year the church calendar takes us from Advent into Lent. We celebrate the birth of a child who would suffer death to...
    No bread on the shelves? Look to the birds!

    No bread on the shelves? Look to the birds!

    I keep looking out the window at the wrens, robins, chickadees, and blue birds. Darting about everywhere; they are busy this morning....
    I can admit it: I'm getting on my OWN nerves. (listening for the winds of transformation)

    I can admit it: I'm getting on my OWN nerves. (listening for the winds of transformation)

    If I am honest, I'm fairly certain I don’t believe that prayer “works.” I doubt I’m unique in this. And yet, I pray. What’s even more...
    Return to this ONE misunderstood word and you’ll feel a heck of a lot better.

    Return to this ONE misunderstood word and you’ll feel a heck of a lot better.

    When we lose perspective, we fall off the rails. When we forget what we believe, we exhaust ourselves trying to meet unrealistic...
    News Flash to Juniors and Seniors in High School (AND their Parents): perfecting the college process

    News Flash to Juniors and Seniors in High School (AND their Parents): perfecting the college process

    This is the time of year juniors and seniors in high school start to feel an imbalanced amount of stress. “If I don’t get into X school,...
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