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What do you say I am?
Recently I have been asked if I was a minister or a teacher. This was in two different settings, but it was close enough together that I decided to start thinking about it. In both situations I kind of...
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Adulthood – being independent versus being an “adult child”.
I saw a Facebook post recently that I really liked. It said “I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control, college loans, food, and cell phones. This isn’t because I’m a Conservative. It...
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Get me away.
It is very hard for me to be any part of the madness going on with my husband’s family right now. I write about compassion and serving people like they are Jesus. I also write about boundaries and...
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Alone, lonely
I was at a restaurant once and a husband and wife were there with their two young children. The mom needed to go to the restroom. The dad was left in charge of the children while my mom was away. The...
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True mental health hospital
I envision a new kind of rehab hospital for people who are mentally ill. Perhaps better said, it will be for people who don’t know how to be human. It will teach people how to take care of themselves....
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The lifestyle to which…
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not sure why I should have to go to work to pay for someone else to not have to go to work. I get it if they are legitimately disabled. That is what the system is...
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The hen, the ant, the grasshopper, and Jesus
“The Little Red Hen” is a useful story about people who prepare and people who are lazy. The creatures who are lazy expect to get something for nothing, and the creature who worked is having none of...
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Waiting to escape part two.
Right now I feel I’m working an 80 hour a week job, but only getting paid for 40. My other “job” is non-paying, and in fact I spend money at it. Classes in being a facilitator aren’t cheap. Materials...
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Poem – I can’t carry it.
I can’t carry it. I can’t carry the weight of a thousand bad days, of a childhood hurt, of the broken glass of leftovers, lonely, alone. I can’t carry it for anyone anymore. I’m tired of doing double...
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Giving money to strangers.
When people asked Jesus for help, they legitimately needed it. They were blind or deaf or possessed by a demon. When he helped them he didn’t have to worry what they were going to do with his help. He...
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