Category: dealing with grief
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Purpose in Life
Your palms are sweating. Your heart is beating out of your chest. Your stomach is doing flip flops. “Sit down,” demanded your professor. Your professor has asked you to come to his office to speak to you. So, you obediently sit down on a chair while your mind is racing. Because […]
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Kindness Matters
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12 On the morning/early afternoon, I found my mom had died, I went on my weekly grocery shopping trip. I needed things to be “normal.” As I checked out, I mentioned to the cashier that she […]
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What is Forgiveness?
So, what is it? When I looked it up in the dictionary, the definition states that it is the “act of forgiving” or “state of being forgiven.” This is so broad and just reuses the word in the definition. So, huh, what is forgiveness? I then looked up the synonyms of the word forgiving: lenient, […]
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Mom’s 50 Boyfriends
Imagine driving through the mountains. There is nothing to do but to keep looking outside at the lack of real scenery except for a few places where you could see some landscapes. There is no where to stop because the exits are few and far between. You are so bored. It was at […]
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A Song that spoke to my soul
As I was driving to work on Thursday, I decided to put K-Love on the radio. They were talking all about the pledge drive which was annoying but I needed to listen to some feel good songs. I understand that they need to raise money for the station. The annoying thing for me is that […]
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Psalms 118:24
The day after my mom’s death, my aunt and I went to the funeral home. Afterwards, we made memories. We visited Aullwood Garden and just talked. Then I took her to my 2 favorite places in the city – Wegerzyn Garden and Second Street Market. Places I had gone with my mom. While […]
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If I Could Go Any Where for the Holidays
If I had all of the money in the world, I would love to go down to Walt Disney World for Christmas. I would not want to visit on Christmas Day because it would be way too busy but I would love to visit at some point in December. Why would I want to go […]
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An Impulsive Road Trip
The other day I went to a Mother-Son brunch. We were asked to list 3 things we did before we had kids. I forgot to put I took impulsive road trips. One memorable one was with Tanya on March 30 to April 1, 2002. I had forgotten when I took the trip until today. On […]
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Celebrating Tanya’s 40th birthday
We didn’t think about where we were going to release the balloons. If we had only moved to the other end of the deck, we would have been okay. 3. Write a blog post inspired by the word: rise.
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