Tag: love
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Feels So Good?
Why does pain hurt so bad? I mean, I could learn to love lessons if they didn’t come with pain attached. We’ve all heard the age-old adage, “No pain. No gain.” But sometimes, I’d like to have gains devoid of pain. In the same vein, I treated pain as a virtue. I figure if I…
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Struggles and Gifts
A person with the gift of kindness is sparsely populated in an area that doesn’t have another person of the same gifting.
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The Character of Imperfections
I have often had a hard time determining who was genuinely for me, and those who just hung around. You see, I suffer from what is known as imperfectus charctus: Lacking the ability to see people for who they really are. It is pretty interesting because I’ve always been this way, or at least used to…
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The Full Circle
Something happened tonight that I didn’t anticipate. Nevertheless, I was prepared for the experience. I went to the grocery story. No, that’s not it. Prior to going to the checkout line, I signaled for my personal driver to come drive up to the front of the store. Okay, okay. So he wasn’t my personal driver at all,…
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the 12 mile road
Live in the moment. Enjoy whatever you encounter in your path and remember to be thankful in all things.
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The Human Experience
The human experience is a beautiful, ugly, painful, joyful journey that we get to experience here on earth. The great thing about it is that you’re not alone. People will walk with you, all throughout your life. If you’re lucky, some will stay. Others will become seasonal flowers that will bloom when it’s time. …
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worth the wait
I’ve become more free in living out my dreams. While this is amazing, it’s a fairly new concept that I’m growing into more everyday. Living freely has been something that I have struggled with, even before I recognized that I was struggling with it. Most of my life, I’ve supported everyone else’s dreams, largely because I feel…
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full of life
Stuart Scott died yesterday. He was 49. I got the news while I was sitting at the organ during church. Since then, I’ve watched a few interviews of those who knew him professionally and personally. They all seem to say the same thing: There wasn’t a nicer guy. No one had a bad thing to…
