Tag: Truth
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Telling Ourselves the Truth
The brawny woman behind the ice cream counter slammed the scoop into a tub of butter brickle so hard it rattled the glass. Clearly discontent, she never looked up at my teenage brother and me–not even to hand us our double-dip cones. That’s when my older sibling, rarely hesitant, asked the most daring question: Maam,…
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A Surprise in the Fireplace
A friend in need…
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The “answer”
I couldn’t sleep the other night. So I turned on the living room television, but found mostly infomercials. Some guy with a mullet and a bow tie hoped to sell me, “The Answer.” “Yes! For just two easy payments of $39.95, you can possess the greatest wealth building secrets of all time–conveniently printed on three…
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Context Lenses
A lesson in focus.
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The Prince of Peace in Our Time
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa The blogger, poojaG, has a weekly feature on, lifesfinewhine, called Six Word Story. Awhile back, her weekly entry read: “It just keeps on getting crazier.” PoojaG didn’t speculate about the cause of the craziness, but my…
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God Knows
There is a way which seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way of death. (Proverbs 16:25) Marie Curie was a highly acclaimed physicist and chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first woman to win a Nobel prize, she is famous for developing and proving the theory of…
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