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A Voice in the Dark
Most of us remember a toy from our childhood with motion sensors. When you walked by it, it set off the lights or sounds or even speech. Our kids were given a Tonka backhoe named …
Encouragement
posts relating to our emotions, motivation, and self-worth
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What Love’s Got To Do With It…
Paul McCartney wondered what was wrong with the fact that , ‘Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.’ Looking at some of those songs, it’s obvious that the perception of love …
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Tell me lies
I still remember an object lesson from a Sunday school class illustrating the significance of lies. She said, “I will just tell one itty, bitty lie and it won’t hurt anybody. It’s called ‘the good …
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Hit with a selfie-stick
If you google “self-worth: there are over 33 million results. It’s apparently very important and a lot of people talk about it. The second result is from positivepsychology, and asks the question, “what is self-worth?”. …
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A Day at the Park
The phone rang, a woman refusing to identify herself, said she heard a baby and a two-year-old crying in the park. She told Ted Skiles (Uncle Ted, as I always referred to him) which park, …
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Time is ticking
Father time is interesting to me; like ‘The Matrix’, time governs our lives. Many homes have a clock in every room of the house. Many of us wear miniature clocks on our wrist. Now we …
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Dark Ages Ahead?
Even though I have just completed my forty-third trip around the sun (which is code for “I am old”) I am not going through a midlife crisis; let’s just call it a midlife reaction. Anyway, …
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Mirror Mirror
Recently, I contacted a Christian doctor who we’ve known for some time, interested in a blog post. The direction went completely different than my original idea, but his testimony was very touching. For if anyone …
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Crossing the pond
A nine year old boy searches for crabs among the rocks as the tide rolls away from the shore, the little boy squints his eyes, trying to spot the crabs in the orange glow of …
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Free Box
Do you remember the magical free box at yard sales growing up? A treasure trove of capless pens, and half used bottles of perfume. Occasionally you might find something good in there. At one yard …