How many times have you set a schedule to have it squashed when the time arrived? Meticulous plans marked in…
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grief
Who wants to be the “King of Pain”?
There’s a little black spot on the sun today, that’s my soul up there It’s the same old thing as…
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How to Fill the Empty Seat at the Thanksgiving Table
When tragedy strikes, it becomes a line of demarcation. Like the rings in the trunk of a tree, each misfortune…
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If we could peek into the heart of God, what would we find?
Does life sometimes come at you all at once? Have you experienced life at that breakneck pace that steals your…
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When you’ve lost so much – how do you manage to be grateful?
My daddy was an ironic mash-up of 70’s flower child and Sicilian Catholic. In the 70’s and 80’s he had an annoying habit of preaching the gospel of “PMA.” For those of you who might have been subjected to this particular brand of torture in your own lives, you will recognize “PMA” as standing for “Positive Mental Attitude.” For every negative comment that Daddy caught us uttering, he would literally make us repeat the opposing positive statement out loud ten – TEN – times. You recognize the formula. It takes ten – TEN- positive thoughts/actions/comments to erase the energy created by just one negative thought/action/comment.
Never Underestimate the Power of Prayer
My heart is breaking this morning to see some of the Social Media comments ridiculing prayer.
I know first hand the discordant emotions of simultaneously not having prayers answered (those fervent prayers between a call informing me of Brooke’s accident and the second call …) and of having prayers answered (prayers of comfort).