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Power of a lyric – Brilliant Disguise
‘Is it me baby, or just a brilliant disguise?’ – Bruce Springsteen, Brilliant Disguise This one is all about integrity. We can fool many people with the masks we wear, even ourselves if we take the delusion far enough. If we fool others, we may say that no one is going to know. But that […]
Ramblings of a Retired Mind
I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse.. I can’t afford one. So, I’m wearing my garage door opener. I also made a cover for my hearing aid and now I have what they call blue teeth, I think. You […]
Stress and Burnout
Recently a friend said he was experiencing “burnout.” I offered my genuine concern, listened, and commited to continue to pray for him. His obvious pain and our conversation motivated me to do some research on this subject, and I soon discovered how uninformed I was about burnout. I quickly learned that I had confused burnout […]
Saddest Country & Western Song?
The saddest country&western song ever recorded, or one of them, has got to be “The Water Lily”, by Tom T. Hall. It’s taken from a poem by Australian poet, Henry Lawson (1867-1922): The Water Lily A lonely young wife In her dreaming discerns A lily-decked pool With a border of ferns, And a beautiful child, […]
Wisdom from a 90-year-old
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.” My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn’t fair, but […]
Rural and City Air
23 September 2009 The contrast could not be so obvious between sports and the corporate world, in that a surprisingly large number of Australia’s top athletes were raised in rural and regional areas whereas those in corporate Australia are generally city types. This has been the finding of Well-Being Australia’s chairman Mark Tronson who has […]
Abused women
Experienced women’s prison chaplain: ‘At least 90% and maybe up to 99% of women’s prison inmates were seriously abused in childhood – sexually, emotionally, or physically – or all three. They turn to drugs/alcohol to drown their pain, and pay for their habit by robbery and/or prostitution. One question: where are the perpetrators of the […]
Did Mother Teresa actually say this?
“People are often unreliable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend your years building, someone may destroy overnight; build it anyway. The good […]
Stories About Kids
Here are some stories about children which will touch your heart: Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was: A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently […]
Messiah and Misery
To be Christian is to cease saying, “Where the Messiah is there is no misery” and to begin to say “Where there is misery there is the Messiah.” The former statement makes no demands; the latter is an assignment. –Fred Craddock
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