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Over at Patheos, a few bloggers were asked to describe God in 100 words or "less" (It should be "fewer," but does God want me to nitpick about grammar in this case? I don't know. So I'm passive-aggressively nitpicking, just a little.) and some readers have joined [...]
Praying for patience.
Praying... Waiting... Stupid God!
I want patience now!
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For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately the [...]
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My husband Mark, I have to admit it, hates fish. And people fish evangelize him all the time. I used to too, in my pre-vegetarian days, when a trip to the aquarium would make me hungry. The problem, you see, is never that [...]
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Two years ago, I gave up on New Year's resolutions. What do those ever lead to but disappointment anyway? Maybe I keep them, but mostly I don't. And when I don't, I feel like a failure. So, I picked a single word as my [...]
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After really struggling last week between my need to sleep and my desire not to sleep, I decided that this week on my day of spirituality I would spend one day throwing out my to do list and letting go of all the things I "should" do [...]
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"I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be tired tomorrow," I [...]
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Earlier this month, I decided I was going to set aside one day each week for spirituality and health, a sort of personal Sabbath. I picked a day of the week and made some rules for myself and set about my spiritual experiment. This week will [...]
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On Thanksgiving morning, I needed to run out to the grocery store for a few last minute items, and if the parking lot of my local store was any indication, I was far from the only one. As I weaved my way slowly through the traffic at [...]
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Years ago, I read The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and was especially fascinated by his use of affirmations to focus on his goals and achieve success. I even tried the technique myself and found the process of spending some time [...]
