When you marry later in life, you know the shelf-life on your marriage is limited. Fifty years – nah. Twenty-five – maybe. Ten years – yes. And so, I started bargaining with God for time. Bargaining with God I’ve always been rather namby-pamby when it came to bargaining with God. I rarely did it and […]
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The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and all things green approaches, as well as March Madness. I’m a Michigan State Spartans fan – go green! But I have found myself reflecting on a less positive green — jealousy, the green-eyed monster. Jealousy and a Critical Spirit Many years ago, while a mother of young children […]
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It appears that we here are experiencing an old-fashioned Michigan winter, the kind I remember from my childhood with an abundance of cold and snow. Not the grey dreary ones we’ve had for the past ten or more years. Arrival Amid a Snowstorm I came into this mess after six weeks in Australia where there […]
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“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” is inscribed above the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno. I’ve been thinking about this phrase as part of my reflections on hope this Advent. It seems I’m in another situation that calls me to abandon hope. What does this mean? Is it even possible? Levels of Hell […]
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This holiday season I’m grieving the loss of a good friend. No, not an individual, but a link to all my friends and loved ones, my cell phone. This occurred at a terrible time, while out of the country on an extended trip, making it impossible to get a replacement until we returned. I know cell phones can be replaced, contacts and other […]
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When Paul says he is being poured out like a libation, we writers know what he is talking about. For me, writing is a libation What is a Libation? Paul in 2 Timothy 4:6 says, “For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand.” (NAB) […]
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I recently returned from a trip to the northern lower peninsula of Michigan to see fall colors. As I watched the display of colors from my car window, I found myself wondering, are there seasons in heaven? Michigan Color Tours For the second year in a row, a wonderful array of deep reds, oranges and […]
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While I wasn’t alive for this event, it had an impact that remains with me today. It was one of the reasons I was involved in the peace movement in my twenties, and a reason why I wrote my book, Buying Time. […]
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been going over old blog posts, deleting irrelevant ones and updating others. In the process I noticed I had a significant number of posts on NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. This prompted me to write an article on how NaNoWriMo helped me write my Dancing Through Life series. […]
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Do all dogs go to heaven? Some say yes, others no, and any variation in between. But why wouldn’t our beloved pets who shower us with unconditional love deserve a place in the next life? Our Love Affair with our Pets We Americans love our pets. And we put our money where our hearts are. […]
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