Posted: November 23, 2022
One of my all-time favorite foods is oatmeal. Yes, oatmeal. When it comes to nutrition, it is hard to beat a bowl of oatmeal. That is why I am sure it was on the menu–a lot. That, and it was inexpensive. As a child growing up, we would have hot, steamy oatmeal for breakfast that
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Posted: November 17, 2022
What if you had to pay to talk? I have been thinking a lot about this lately. How about those harsh words spoken to a spouse out of frustration. Or those words your teenager just screamed at you when you told them, “No, you can’t go to that party.” Would we have an account that
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Posted: September 20, 2022
Life is really very bittersweet. You go to the hospital to have major heart surgery; you are there several days during your recovery. You are cleared to come home and get on with rehabilitation, but a setback occurs within a few days, and you are smack back in the hospital again. You go into knee
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Posted: September 18, 2022
A number of weeks back I woke up to a mysterious message in my e-mail inbox. It directed me to another site where I would receive a code so that I could unlock some sort of mystery. Use that code to get at a secret message that I only would be able to access. I
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Posted: July 28, 2022
The young woman has a body that is wracked and riddled with pain. My grace is sufficient for you. The aging minister no longer can communicate either by voice or in writing due to a stroke. My grace is sufficient for you. The young man who relies heavily on drugs to get through the day,
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Posted: May 11, 2022
I still like to run. So, every now and then I will sign up to run a race. It’s usually only a 5K. During Tulip Time in our town, there is a Tulip Time Run. I signed up, I ran, and I took first place in my division. Yes, there were more runners than just
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Posted: March 28, 2022
It’s fun to be a fly on the wall at the community swimming pool. Children are the hotbed for understanding human nature at its rawest. They start with a friendly game of Marco Polo. Then move on to a challenge for who can hold their breath for the most seconds, or swim the longest distance,
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Posted: February 18, 2022
The best one-liner that I heard over the holidays came from Virginia Madden, the wife of the late football great who died just three days after an emotional documentary on his life aired on Christmas Day. She said, “I don’t know what goes on in a man’s mind.” For the women who are reading this,
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Posted: January 24, 2022
I am doing an experiment I have long been a fan of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages. If you are familiar with it, he shares five languages through which each of us feels loved. By understanding this about your spouse, your children, your parents, and any relationship you want to grow and develop, and
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Posted: January 20, 2022
A person who has someone by his side when a cancer diagnosis is relayed can count himself lucky. It is not always evident but when a thunderbolt hits from out of the blue, one needs all the support one can get. Some cancer patients try to outwardly show calm and courage even when they are
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