Tag: God
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Naps with God
The kindergarteners in the classroom where my wife substitutes have a rest time every afternoon. For about thirty minutes, it’s lights out and everyone lies down on their blanket. Some sleep and some don’t, but it’s a quiet time for everyone. This past Tuesday, when the lights came back on, one little guy sat up…
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The Power of Perspective
I love greeting students at my elementary school when they get dropped off in the morning. We exchange positive affirmations like, “Have an amazing day!” or my favorite, “It’s a great day at Freedom Elementary!” Earlier this week, I gave my “It’s a great day…” pitch to a fourth grader, who stopped in his tracks.…
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Is the Sky Really Falling?
In the early 1990’s, social psychologist Roy Baumeister began exploring the negativity bias–the widely accepted belief that bad has a stronger impact on people than good. His team conducted extensive research, hoping to find situations where a single positive circumstance was actually stronger than a negative one. They couldn’t find any. In fact, Baumeister and…
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Mister Left Lane
It was 1957, when my dad and his older brother left rural New Mexico and drove west, all the way to Los Angeles, California. The trip, on the recently finished Interstate 10, went smoothly–until they hit the suburbs of L.A. Six lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic, with countless on and off ramps, was petrifying! The two…
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Tech Trouble
Our five year old broadband modem was running slowly and no longer updating. So, I called our internet service provider and a nice gentleman set me up with a brand new one: promising faster speeds and better security. The package arrived on my doorstep two days later. I eagerly plugged in the new electronic gadget,…
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Anxiety + Resiliency = “Anxiliency”
“You help someone by telling them your story,” says my blogger friend Mitch Teemley. Okay, that’s not a direct quote, but it sums up his purpose in story telling–I think. Since I linked back to his site, maybe he’ll chime in.🤞 My story goes like this: at times I’ve been like a leafless tree, watching…
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