Well my dear ones,

While many people have been spending time contemplating the big things in life,
I have been meditating on the small things.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the door.

The door was a door that, several years ago,
a small kitten belonging to a little girl
got her head stuck in.

The door was the door of a church ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

While I have been doing OK at keeping up
on posting something encouraging each day
on my FaceBook page,
I’ve been slipping here in this blog.

So, here’s a bit of something to lift you up
by changing how you view yourself.

Our view of ourselves is often malleable,
shifting with our emotions,
changing with ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

I have many friends who work saving animals,
which is way cool, of course.

But I do really love stories about
animals saving people,
especially when the animals
risk their own lives to do it.

That’s just too cool!
And it convinces me even more
(not like I really needed it =>)
that God gave us our furry friends ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

As I’ve noted before,

my friends cover a wide range of ages

as well as a diversity of viewpoints.

As for me,

my liberal friends think I’m too conservative;

my conservative friends think I’m too liberal;

and my Libertarian friends... *shrugs*

they’re too busy trying to figure out

how to shrink the government

to take the time to ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

I am running behind on encouraging things;

the passing of my Mom took a lot from me;

thank God, I know I’ll see her again

past heaven’s gate.

And one thing I’m really happy about

is that, while she was here,

I told her like a million times

how much I love her;

hence, if you have someone you love,

someone who has been a huge

( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

Something my wife and I often discuss

is the change in the way kids now grow up,

compared to how we did,

and the change is not for the good.

Would you like to see a better world?

Me, too.

And it starts with the way we teach our children.

Here’s a great article from Miss Hannah Rosin:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

First off, I would like to apologize

for the long time gap between now

and Simba’s story

(Simba...what a cute little spud! =>).

I was set to write something,

“tell your heart to beat again,”

but then my Mom passed away,

and it took me quite a while

to get my own heart to beat again.

[Shakespearian aside to Mom]

“Mom, thanks for ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

My last blog on “Ugly” got a lot of responses.

But most of them were of the type like,

“Thanks for ruining my lunch & making me cry!”

Well, that obviously wasn’t my intent;

and I do agree that most of the people

in that story acted horribly;

I also concur that, like the responders,

my own reaction would have been

to adopt that ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

I believe God sometimes uses

our furry friends in order to

teach us important life lessons.

Witness this account of “Ugly,”

a stray no one wanted:

http://www.littlechurchmouse.com/nobody-even-go-close-one-guy-came-along-changed-everything/

http://diply.com/videosworthsharing/ugly-the-cat-love-judge-appearance/156199

I ( Read more... )

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Well my dear ones,

This message will be super short,

yet it’s something about which

we all might want to think a bit.

While we all (especially me!)

take many things for granted,

one thing for which we should never do that

is our friends.

The friends who actually care about us,

who love us even when we mess up,

the ones who love us at all times,

( Read more... )