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Tuesday Tip #39 – Monkey See
“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.” Matthew 5:9
Peacemakers are intentional. Today’s tip is a subtle yet effective way to carry peace like a provocative fragrance with you:
Be peaceful.
Simple, yes? Maybe the concept is simple, the application might take some soul searching in the areas of trust, faith and what [...]
Cry Baby
He shuffled in with tell-tale hunched shoulders. I knew what had happened. Standing pools threatened to overflow his coffee colored eyes.
“Today was a very bad day,” he stared as the tears brimmed over and dripped to the floor.
Cry baby. That was what they called him. My heart was torn. Part of it agreed with the [...]
Sixty Six Years
How long will you live?
The CIA has a study from last year (2009) about the average lifespan of the inhabitants of every country. The study also gives an average for the world. Evidently a human being of our era can expect to live about 66 years, give or take.
Here are some stats I found [...]
Choice
Adoption update: Two weeks ago I called my lawyer. It had been six weeks since we had talked at which time she told me, “We are fourth in line for local adoptions. Wait one more month.” Are you doing the math? The one month had been expired for two weeks. That is why I called. [...]
Keepers
Watch this:
“… having done all, to stand. Stand therefore … “
Sound familiar? It is a phrase from the bible, often quoted all together like that. There is something sneaky about this bit of scripture, though. It is the end of one verse and the start of a new one. Maybe you can see where I [...]
Passing the Baton
Wrapping my brain around what has transpired in the last weeks and then this morning has been nearly impossible. Speculation and conjecture are duking it out in my gray matter. Yet, my heart is mechanically ascending to the truth that Billy Joe Daugherty has put on immortality.
Maybe the swirling disbelief and surreal incognizance is similar [...]
Desire Fulfilled
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
(Proverbs 13.12 New Living Translation)
Laying on the landscape framed by my kitchen window Mount Tunari waited. From afar I watched it change unchanging. Snow, clouds, fire, sun, green, brown, and shadow playing on the peak as I longed from afar. Promises many, [...]
Who’s Driving This Thing?
My signature has the at symbol in it: @. It reminds me of the shape of a steering wheel because I love driving. It also causes me to ask the philosophical question of life: who’s driving this thing? Who is in charge?
It is a valid question. It could go to the depths of predestination and [...]
Curb Check
You know when you are driving and you misjudge where the curb is and kinda bump into it as you roll over the corner? We say, “Curb check. Yep, it’s still there.”
Recently I had a pride curb check. No one was injured, it just caught me up and made me take notice. This is the [...]
Tuesday Tip #26 – A.S.K.
When I was a teenager I tested my limits. C’mon, you can’t tell me you didn’t do the same. It was kinda fun getting in trouble a bit after being a Little Miss Goody Two Shoes for most of my childhood. (Maybe my parents would not say that I was all that angelic, but I [...]
On this journey of life, sharing my existence with God’s wonderful creation, there is nothing that thrills my heart more than knowing that my moments drip with purpose and destiny. 