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Showing Off in Bosnia… and Kansas (via Nebraska)

A friend of mine recently relayed this story about her husband’s experience while stateside (they are currently ‘stationed’ in Europe for his job) – it was too good to keep to myself – the names have been changed (to Bill … Continue reading

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Sing it Mick!!

You can’t always get what you want…. but if you try sometimes, you just might find…. you get what you need…. oh yeah… Over and over and over again, this is my experience – I always get what I need, … Continue reading

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Bless Her Heart…..

One of the first things I learned when I moved to the south was that you can say absolutely anything about anybody as long as you say “bless her (or his) heart” at the end. “Oh she dyed her hair … Continue reading

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They Always Had THREE Doors on Let’s Make A Deal….

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy??? What?? What happened to Door #3??? Right AND happy! I remember the first time someone asked me that – do you want to be right or do … Continue reading

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I Can’t Make You (Not) Love Me….

The other day I heard that old Bonnie Raitt song… “I can’t make you love me if you don’t…”  For so long I related to that song – chasing lost loves (most of them only lost in my head since … Continue reading

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Red Lipstick

Funny how a “spiritual path” doesn’t always look like I expect it to look – when I was new to all of this, I thought someone was going to suggest that I get up, look in the mirror every morning, … Continue reading

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Dear Dad… saw your friends today….

Hard to believe my Dad has been gone for almost 30 years – I was at my worst when he left this earth – the last words he ever spoke to me were “don’t you think you have just about … Continue reading

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This Means War!

I was cleaning out my purse the other day (always an adventure) and I ran across a quote I had written down a few months ago:  “Obsession is all out war on powerlessness!” It’s helpful to remember that, in this … Continue reading

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Listen

Yesterday we talked about someone suddenly coming to mind, and then running into them a few days later – what about when someone suddenly comes to mind and we think “gee, I should give them a call…”  Do we do … Continue reading

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Showing off

One of the reasons for the blog is to take a look at all the little ways God does what we like to call “showing off” – all those little coincidences and things that make us go hmmmm……  and today … Continue reading

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