Living Blogs
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Meatball the Christmas Cat
I first posted this essay for CafeMom.com, but liked it so much I wanted to share! This Christmas stood out for a lot of non-traditional reasons. I was behind on everything due to multiple family disasters a hundred miles away that started...
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Learning to Trust
Trusting God is something I thought I understood, until.... depression smacked me down on my face. I then realized I never really understood what it means to trust God or anyone for that matter. I was surrounded by many friends, church...
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Happy New Year!
There's something so exciting about waking up in a new year ... there are 365 days of unblemished promise ahead, 12 months of challenges -- some known, many not. Last night, I found myself thinking about New Year's Eve 2009, and wondering what big stories...
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GOALS
GOALS Goals enhance our lives. I believe that a person without goals is simply going through the motions of life missing one of the greatest enhancements to one’s existence – setting and achieving goals. Let me define what I mean...
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Stewardess on a coaster - a New Years- memory
In December 1973, a day after Christmas, my mother and I got a physical check-up, in order to get a real Seamans book. It was all done in a hurry, in Amsterdam, and from that moment on we were supposed to be stewardesses. It says so in that book, I...
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STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
We had just finished our high school senior class trip. After a week in Virginia Beach, VA we had returned to our little town and were saying goodbye, knowing that some of us would probably never see each other again in our lifetimes. It...
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We Resolve to Help You
It’s that time of year again. A new year filled with new hope. It’s the time when we all make resolutions to spend more time with family and friends, help others, get fit, lose weight, run a marathon, start a new business, change jobs, beat a...
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Managing Major Change Successfully
Creating Positive Change in spite of Crisis By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Change... it is a part of life that we don’t like to face. Oh we may speculate on what it would be...
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Improvisational Christmas!
Christmas got improvisational this year. There's a long list of things that didn't get done, didn't get taken out of boxes, didn't get bought, didn't get baked. I used "imaginary" wrapping paper on the presents because I didn't have time to...
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Cry out to your Creator who knows you best.....
Help me Lord! Without You , I am nothing at all. I need You to make it another day;Your purpose to give me purpose, Your love so I may have love to give. I won't make it another second without You my God. Help me to push...
