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Facing the New Year

The pandemic of 2020 and 2021, with all its uncertainties for the future, can make setting goals and resolutions feel pointless. Set that aside, and instead, with hope, focus on opportunities. This will encourage your belief in your ability to take action to improve yourself and your situation. Here are some tips to help you. […]

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Hope in a World Gone Mad

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7) With the world in a state of flux, there are anchor points we can grasp, and with ourselves stabilized, we can enlighten the way of hope for others. Just as I […]

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When Deep Grief and Deep Peace Embrace

Hospital room a few days after Thanksgiving, my sister and I on either side of a bed, watching the frail, failing body of our mother. Darkness broken only by the glow of machines designed to monitor the presence, or absence, of life. Mom has been unresponsive for a few days now. Faint echoes of hospital […]