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Remember When….
You’re gathered with friends and someone says, “Remember when…” and recalls an event or occasion years ago. If you have a great memory you may respond, “Of course I do, Billy and Marge were there in crazy costumes….” and off you gallop down Memory Lane. Others of us with powers of recall challenges shrug blankly,…
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The Burning Question of Notre Dame
We couldn’t believe our eyes as we watched the grand lady of Paris engulfed and teetering in flames yesterday. Many of us probably remembered when we walked beneath her intricately carved roof and walls admiring craftsmanship over so many years. I was a hungry and penniless student in 1975 when I climbed her iconic towers…
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No Doubt About It….
Mind reading, second-guessing, believing the worst is a tendency most of us appear to be quite skilled at. Negativity and doubt about ourselves, how others see us, and our faults and weaknesses – these loom large in our psyche. In high profile leaders it’s called the ‘imposter syndrome’. What if someone finds out what I’m…
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Tough Love
Circumstances change so quickly. It’s easy to be afraid of ‘what’s next’? You’d have to be superhuman to live indifferently. To be immune to external situations tugging at your emotions while shoving fear and apprehension to the foreground way too frequently. Some people respond by trying to control everything and everyone around them as a…
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The Yoke’s on You – for 2019!
Here we are as the last of the bathwater of 2018 drains out. Personally I’m quite happy to have the plug pulled and to see the last of this year. Borrowing the words of the Queen for 1992: “1992/2018 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words…
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Peace and Goodwill
“Peace on earth and goodwill toward men,” the angels announced on the eve of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, “Don’t be afraid.” Yet, the newborn infant had scarcely drawn his first breath when King Herod unleashed barbaric cruelty and decreed all babies under two years old be killed. He was threatened by rumours of…
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After the Silence
Four hundred years of silence. Nothing. From the final words in the last book of the Old Testament until the first words of the New Testament – four hundred years and counting. Malachi ended with a promised declaration about turning the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents.…
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Time – in a Bottle?
“If I could save in a bottle..” sang Jim Croce. Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce Time’s a funny thing. Sometimes it’s soft and flits like a butterfly from day to day with lightness and joy. And then there are seasons where it’s more akin to a dinosaur somnambulating (sleep walking, I like the…
Googling God 