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In preparing for tomorrow’s bible study, the lesson asked me to write down what I thought the definition of loyalty was. I wrote: “Sticking with a person or thing, no matter what.” Good, but not quite good enough. The definition in the lesson was: “To be firm, be steadfast, be established, be faithful, be sure, . . . → Read More: Loyalty – A New Twist I’m making my way, one more time, through Melody Beattie’s “More…The Language of Letting Go”. At least this time I understand the concept. At least this time I have made huge progress in that elusive, but necessary, part of life. The arrangement of the topics over the last three days caught my interest. March . . . → Read More: Manna + Trappings = Peace “Do something. You’re NOT DEAD YET. As author Barbara Sher says, ‘It’s only too late if you don’t start now.’ Or if you prefer my version, ‘Quit your bitching. Change your life.’ Don’t be the hag at your own party. Stop hurting yourself. If your thinking isn’t working for you, change your mind. Or . . . → Read More: Will YOU “Begin”? This morning I was surprised by about 4 inches of snow. On my drive to fit club, I was marveling at the picture it painted on the arc of trees over my road. It was beautiful. That’s when it dawned on me. I have a choice as to how my mind paints this picture. I . . . → Read More: The Picture You Paint Do you know those times when you pray and pray for something important and nothing, just nothing, seems to be happening? You start thinking maybe you should just stop praying because it isn’t doing any good. I experience this all the time when praying for something that seems like it’s never going end. And then . . . → Read More: A Bit of Strengthening St. Patrick was a courageous kind of guy. He was captured and taken hostage at a young age. His captors took him from his homeland in Britain to Ireland and kept him in prison for years. During his imprisonment, he claims to have had a dream in which God spoke to him and told him . . . → Read More: St. Patty’s Day Enlightenment …until your body is face down flat on the ground, fists pounding and legs kicking. Your mind has run off over the horizon and your spirit has vacated to hover just below the clouds. Yoga means the union of the body, mind and spirit. When the mind and spirit have vacated the premises and left . . . → Read More: Yoga Doesn’t Grab You… What is cracking your life into pieces lately? An illness? A lost job? The last dollar? A broken relationship? Yesterday I learned there are three ways God deals with us when “fiery trials” enter our lives. First and foremost we must remember that “before a heartache can ever touch our lives, it has to go . . . → Read More: Three Ways To Deal It’s been a papal day. I left the house as the first wave of black smoke appeared this morning. I returned home as the white smoke began to unfurl. After fit club I got the new pope’s name as a news alert on my phone. I sat with my coffee and soup at Panera Bread . . . → Read More: All Things Papal & Religious Most of us reading this post remember Popeye’s torrid food affair with spinach. Lately I’m having my own food fascination with the green leaves, except mine is in the form of Panera Bread’s new spinach power salad. It is made with baby spinach leaves, hard boiled eggs, mushrooms, bacon bits, and crunchy onions and served . . . → Read More: Spinach & Smoke |
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