I resented you for years, you old fart, for your meddling seemed always to make my best-laid plans fizzle, fade, die on the vine and I would have sworn your collective efforts secured the failure if all good things. Honestly, […]
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I Chose to Choose Joy
Paul chose contentment when imprisoned. A man named Walter chose to rise from pain and treasure life. One named Yehuda chose words of encouragement. William James propounded battling stress choosing one thought over another. Groucho Marx proclaimed, I, not events, […]
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If you … find yourself going out of control with a substance or behavior, I want you to consider that compulsive behaviors are a sign of a life out of balance. Instead of going into denial or trying to avoid […]
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“It is when I am weak that I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10) The only real perfection of which humans are capable is to include, absorb, forgive, and transform human imperfection. Humans are conduits and transformers much more than self-sufficient […]
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Against the peace and dignity of the state. ~ language in indictments and informations Every person had his “peace” in the Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, pretty much the equivalent of somebody’s “space.” The king had a bigger peace. As early as […]
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