Author: pattyshusband
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BONUS BLOG: Doomscrolling? Uhm….
Kiran Young Wimberly hits it — Ask yourself why you scroll in the first place ~ is it because you’re anxious about the state of the world, or lonely and longing for deeper connection? What the compulsion, what’s the deeper longing, and are there other/better ways we can meet those needs? — and your response?…
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Thinking and Reading & Reading and Thinking
Fran Lebowitz said it well — Think before you speak. Read before you think. — and I can’t say it any better. When today shall we do both?
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BONUS BLOG: the big C
From someone writing under the name Audra comes this — Cancer isn’t the “BIG C” Christ is. Cancer took me by surprise; Christ knew all of my days before there was one of them. Cancer deformed my body; Christ formed my inward parts and knitted me together in my mother’s womb. Cancer zapped my strength…
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That Fourth Person, part 2
Re: yesterday here, Daniel 3;24, 25…who does Scripture say saw that fourth person? Hmmmm… Even when we don’t see God at work in our situations…hmmmm. To whom will God do a Self-Revelation today in your situation? Again, hmmmm.
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BONUS BLOG: before you give up
Kim Komando: “Before you give up on something, ask what’s wrong. Computers and people both do better when somebody listens.” Let’s you and me remind each other to do both parts: ask, and then listen.
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That Fourth One
Not sure I’ve ever noticed this significant detail until recently — Old Testament Book of Daniel Chapter 3 Check out verses 24 and 25 Let’s review: who saw the fourth person in there with them, and what did that one look like, andwhat difference did that individual make? — Apply as needed to your situation today. If you…
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BONUS BLOG: saban says
…and this might also apply to other beloved groups and some situations you and I know —-
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Kurt Vonnegut: what it costs to create something real
From the page The Way We Were — He came home on leave for Mother’s Day, 1944, and found that his mother had died the night before. Edith Vonnegut had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. She had been struggling for years — with mental illness, with alcohol, with prescription drugs, with the particular despair…
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P + P = F, part three of three…for now.
“The past always informs the present and leads us into the future.” Even more, and even better, God guides us “into the future.” A while ago, a guy wrote I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who…
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P + P = F, part two
Yesterday we thought together about an ad from the New York City Public Library. Its opener was “The past always informs the present and leads us into the future.” You and I can’t change the past. That’s obvious. So why do we spend so much time and energy going over material that starts with “If…
