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The Easy Yoke Gets Rid of Baggage

The yoke pictured here is associated with the joining of two working animals that bear a heavy load. Humans frequently take on the role of beasts of burden. There is a way to carry a yoke that is easy. Envisioning humans being linked together in a device like this one may seem unthinkable however, when we can […]

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Stop the Insanity!

Insanity, “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” the definition credited to Albert Einstein. None of us wants to be insane, by any definition of the word. Nonetheless this form of insanity is self-induced.  The carousel of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is what happens […]

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A Life Without Purpose

Many people feel they live a life without purpose. They struggle with the job they have, the family they were born into and mostly see the philosophical glass as half empty. When it seems like everyone else gets all of the “good opportunities” and people believe they just get a hard way to go, what truth […]

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Faith Requires Effort

  Maintaining faith in God takes more and more effort these days. We are living in an era when: enormous financial institutions have folded; major business partnerships have dissolved; an ever increasing number of marriages are crumbling; almost daily health concerns appear prompted by newly discovered  carcinogens; and governments are unable to keep pace with […]

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Know Yourself Companions Love Yourself

Know Yourself, Love Yourself Knowing yourself is part of loving yourself. Do you know yourself? Do you really love yourself? When you look at what is in your heart behind the smokescreens do you love what you know to be there? Do you know yourself? Recently I went to have lunch with my loving husband. […]

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SHAME on you!

Have you ever said that to someone? Has anyone ever said that to you? I remember as a young girl versions of the following being said about me, “Why is she so quiet?” or “She shamed to talk?” Being silent was often more pleasant than saying what I was thinking. Because of the environment in […]

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Take Care

Are you taking care? Take care. An expression I am certain you have heard or used before. There are many ways to “take care”. Self-care is one approach for each of us to take care.  Are you taking care of yourself? Loving yourself means that you recognize your needs and honor them. What does it […]

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Got Joy?

That advertising campaign was developed for the California Milk Processing Board began in October of 1993 and is still popular today. Early ads featured someone with a mouth stuffed with sticky foods or a mound of cookies then the logo and the question would be posed.  We all got the message that if we were […]

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MAKING ADJUSTMENTS

As you are working on those goals you established a few weeks ago how are you doing? Approaching week three of my plan to walk thirty minutes per day, for at least five days a week, I must admit, I am off track! I started pretty strong the first week. I moved away from my […]