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OneWord
OneWord Yesterday as I was sitting in my normal, curled up on the floor position addressing envelopes I caught a segment of the Today Show where a discussion was promoting the adoption of One Word as...
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F.A.I.T.H.
When you woke up this morning, what was the first thing on your mind? I mean besides hearing the squelch and sizzle of steaming hot water through coffee. Before I opened my eyes today my mind was...
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It’s Today!
“I hoped and prayed … and it didn’t happen.” I read those words from a friend and instantly felt the draining emotion of that message. I prayed so hard and nothing. Anyone who has built up hope,...
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What we own
Have you ever had a blue day… maybe not dark blue, but not the sunny sky blue that lights up the sky and feels like summer. It’s more like the gray blue that’s tinged with sadness and mutes all joy....
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A new Gold Standard
Make new friends, but keep the old, some are silver, others gold. I look at that poem and realize the truth in that old Proverb. I’ve bent the words just a touch because whether my friends are new or...
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Pathway to Peace
I’m working on a pathway to peace. I wish I could say it’s already perfected, but it is not. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s this. Today is all I’ve got; tomorrow is the result of how I live...
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What about that life of P.E.A.C.E.
What about that life of P.E.A.C.E. – well? If you had an illness and you knew with 100% assurance that there was a remedy, totally free, and without any negative side effects, would you turn it down? I...
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The impact of one life
You’ll never regret being kind. Does anyone remember traveling in the south and reading road signs that spelled out an entire sentence strung together in incremental words? Or maybe they advertised...
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A Friend is Someone Who Saves Your Place
A few days ago on Facebook one of my friends posted something like “I’m babysitting kids, that don’t need a babysitter, on a Friday night. I must not have any friends.” I giggled inwardly because I...
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Plant the R
I listened as two young women talked in line ahead of me at the local Shell station. I think the topic was homework and part-time jobs; I’m sure they weren’t talking about the Friday night football...
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Seriously? You’re going to live by OneWord? as in All Year?
Well it’s here, the moment we’ve been waiting for. The anticipating the planning … the clock struck 12 and 2015 was born. Welcome. Welcome to the New Year everybody! Do you make resolutions? Or maybe...
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Sir Winston Churchill’s “Never, never, never give up” Originated in the Bible
Sir Winston Churchill is credited with saying, “Never, never, never give up.” No doubt that’s a valid claim to the quote, but I think it started way back, thousands of years ago, in the Bible....
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Happy Anniversary from WordPress
A day or so ago, I got an email from WordPress congratulating me on my anniversary. It took me a moment to figure out what they were telling me. I guess they keep track of when I published my first...
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Rant; grouch; rage; let it out. Now – How do you feel?
Do you ever read something and the words keep coming back to you like a boomerang? That happened to me yesterday. I was aimlessly browsing an article and read part of a conversation where one person...
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Authentic vs Artificial: Assessing the Real Deal
Would it surprise you to learn that one of the top enticing scents, when put to a vote, is ‘that new car smell’? I know. I’m skeptical too. Which segment of the population chose new car scent over...
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All I want is a little peace.
Just when I knew all the answers, they changed all the questions. Do you ever feel like that? I have, or at least my much younger self has felt like that. At the end of 2014, I was choosing my word for...
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Seeking stillness – finding your quiet place
In the secret, in the quiet place. In the stillness you are there …. That song was playing in my mind as I woke up this morning. “In the secret in the quite hour I wait, only for you because I want to...
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Learning from highlights of the past
I have a rule which I follow pretty diligently. Protect the first hour and last hour of the day – no televised news shows and no talk shows. They plant seeds of negativity that have to be weeded out...
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Why do I have to be the one to forgive?
For too many days now, I have had on my high priority list this task: Clear the clutter from office, including file drawers. And that’s as far as it gets, but in my defense I’ve come across some pretty...
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Within Tolerance
“Be still my soul, the Lord is on your side” … “In the morning when I rise, give me Jesus.” Hovering between sleep and the first dawn of day, those songs made paths through my memory. To understand,...
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