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May 8, 2009
- Wake up in bed, in a bed..Four seconds to realize, there is nothing..Open a pair of haggard eyes, something's missing..The embroidery of the cushionStamped on my plain face,At least now it is ornamented..Something's missingThat cannot be replaced..Close your eyes, it's hard to seeHard to wake up to life resented..They sipped your vigour and passionFor their morning tea..And now I wake up in a ...
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April 17, 2009
- I hope you had a joyous Easter. I sure did. Friends, Bret, Mary, Don, and Susan, prepared the entire meal and brought it to my house, all I had to do was don rabbit ears, dye eggs, and set the table. My friends are so solicitous of me that I almost wish I could drag this heart surgery thing out for awhile, but, alas, I can't. It's now set for May 25th at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. ...
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April 4, 2009
- This heart stuff ain’t no joke, honey. I’ve had so many Cat Scans that I must be radioactive by now. If you don’t know and I didn’t, a Cat Scan or CT scan, computerized axial tomography, is an x-ray procedure that combines many x-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional views and three-dimensional images of the internal organs and structures of the body! I swear ...
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March 26, 2009
- “Where is True Justice?" It can be found in the heart, through compassion. Most of my life I spent asking God where the justice was in the world? Not only in my own family did I question these things, but in close relatives and friends. And I’ve come to believe: there is no justice we know, without compassion. Compassion in asking our hearts ...
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March 24, 2009
- Fragile. Definition: easily broken; weak, of delicate frame or constitution; not strong. Fragile life. Life. Definition: impossible. Too many definitions in the Oxford Dictionary to define life. Quick examples: not inorganic matter or, my favourite definition, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. Death. Definition: the final cessation of vital functions in an organism, the ...
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March 19, 2009
- In the Beginning was the Word…. I have noticed the pleasure and the strain in writing the words. The pleasure to connect in the deepest part of our soul with another seems like the closest thing to God, especially when writing the words so others can understand what we have to say. Where else can we pour our hearts out and know someone is listening to our words, other ...
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March 2, 2009
- Charity Begins at Home Esther 12:34 And now I know that this love which hast had for the children of men is charity; wherefore, except men shall have charity they cannot inherit that place which thou hast prepared in the mansions of thy Father Definition of Charity: Benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity: Generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or ...
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March 1, 2009
- Does it have a Heart? For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. (Romans 2:13) Ten years after Mom passed my father became sick. By this time he was living in a smaller house that one of my brothers bought for him several years before, due to the great sorrow that led him to sell the large family home. My brother ...
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February 10, 2009
- Therapist… The Angel that Led Us Matthew 4,4 “Not by bread alone is man to live but on every utterance that comes from the mouth of God.” Because of the overwhelming grief and loss, I went to see a psychologist who practiced at the hospital where my husband had recently died. She was a young woman, in her early thirties. As I told my story, she cried. The whole time I ...
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January 24, 2009
- FIRST There are times we feel the desire for something more in our lives, and we cannot fulfill them now as our present responsibilities must be met. This is not a delay, but a message from God calling us to pay attention to the present. When we take care of our responsibilities first, the perfect time will come for us to fill our desire with everything we need, even more. It ...
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