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Fighting Irish
That time is coming for us all to don our ugly, green argyle socks. If you don’t, little green leprechauns will be pinching your arm all day. Did you know St. Patrick’s favorite color was …
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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 …
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Not for the faint of Heart
(some material in this post is thematic. read with caution) Some reports on Lisa’s story conflicted. It appears she was released from Prison in June 2022, but her civil case is still active. Sometimes Christianity …
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Keep your eyes peeled
I don’t usually subject you to the newlywed stories but this one is worth your time. My husband was 29 when we got married, and was a bachelor for many years, so he was used …
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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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Home Is Where the Heart Is
Lisa is an old friend from the church in Vermont. Her last son was born about the same time as my first. Like a big sister, she guided me through that first perilous year of …
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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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Walk by Faith
A lot of people have a habit of sleep walking. If, you’re lucky, in the morning you wonder why your phone is in the fridge or something like that, but for others it is far …