Ask me to name one outstanding quality about myself, and I will hem and haw, knowing deep down that my best self-appraisal is unreliable. It seems safer to be derogatory than complimentary, to criticize rather than praise. ~ For Today […]
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Give Me Your Garbage
I expect nothing good, no kindness, no courtesy, no respect. I expect your garbage dumped on me, sarcasm, bitterness, arrows of spite… I expect nothing good but I’ve come to understand that’s not what I deserve. I am worthy of […]
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It’s not the words. We can sit around the table and two people can say exactly the same words, mouth the same program wisdom, but we know… When it’s time to look within, to find someone who has what we […]
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Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his […]
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Where does it start, the surrender? Is it conviction? Standing accused, confronted with evidence, proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt? Is it contrition? Remorse, penitence, regret? Is it confession, the recitation of wrongs, of sins, of embarrassments, of shame? O my […]
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