A TIME TO END AND A TIME TO BEGIN

This is a strange week for me.  It is the week that my unemployment checks end and it is the week that school starts for many.  I have been a part of the beginning of school for the last 24…

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BORN GRATEFUL

Who among you was born grateful?  I know I wasn’t.  I was born demanding.  I was born needy.  I was born with some level of entitlement.  And so were you. Don’t kid yourself.  Don’t lie to the rest of us….

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OMPHALOSKEPSIS

When I was in seminary, eons ago, I remember  one of the most hysterical statements I heard went something like this: “I am contemplating my finitude.”   What the what?  Who sits around contemplating their “finitude”?  Crazy people, that is…

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WHAT FILLS YOU UP?

This week my day is starting out with a cold, steel cut oatmeal “parfait”.  Let me say, I am not a fan of oatmeal…. I am a cream of wheat kind of gal.  I can even do the instant cream…

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