A Challenging Gift
You have to wonder why people give you certain gifts. Is there a message in the gift? What exactly are they trying to tell you? Perhaps its more devious than that – like a challenge
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Surprise, Surrender and Serenity
It started out as any morning. Thad and I stumble out of bed and assess the condition of our bodies. I am bent over with lower back and hip pain which is radiating down to
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Do You Want to Bet?
I am not a betting person but when faced with two options I find myself wondering the odds of the simplest, safest, and most successful path. For example, when I search my GPS for directions
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The Other Side of a Season of Mayhem
We go through seasons in our lives when it feels like a torrential storm or a landslide where so many things are happening in every area of our lives that we can’t imagine how we
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The Value of Resilience
How often during your struggles with medical mayhem have you wanted to just give up? How often did you say the words “I’m done! I can’t do it anymore!” And when we do manage to
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Family History Can Forecast the Future
“At the Lord’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages”. Numbers 33:2 Family history can tell a lot about us. Not only can it explain our neuroses, it
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Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout – Part Two
In the first part of Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout we talked about recognizing the symptoms of caregiver burnout. In Part Two we will talk about the steps we can take to reduce caregiver stress. A
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Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout – Part One
How’s you balance? I’m not talking about walking on a balance beam. Rather, how do you balance the myriad of things to do in the array of areas that make up your life? I don’t
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God’s Chameleons
If you, like me, are over a half century old, then you probably are sporting some aches and pains. Maybe it’s an old sport injury, or work related problem, an inherited disease state or from
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When Will It End?
Every feel like you are in a season of life that you really wish you could leave? Like you are in a blizzard that never seems to end. I have felt like that a few
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The Stream of Worry
Worry is a thin stream of fear that trickles through the mind, which, if encouraged, will cut a channel so wide that all other thoughts will be drained out. – Author Unknown. 1 Corinthians 14:33
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Be Smart, Work Smart and Save the ER Cost for a Cruise
Its hard to believe that while the temperatures are currently in the 90’s in Florida that we do have some cold weather and some freeze warnings. When we do, we have to do some preparations.
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