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Tag Archives: Doing good
To Give, One Must First Recieve
“We are what we eat.” I have learned this lesson many times over. When I eat healthy foods, I am and stay healthy. I splurge on sugars and sweets, I easily put on unhealthy pounds. I indulge in rich and … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Doing good, Learning
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Home and Family
It is strange and paradoxical how our family and our loved ones can be both the source of our greatest joys and deepest love and at the same time the cause of our greatest pains and deepest sorrows; how the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Generosity, Identity, Relationships
Tagged Doing good, Healing, Suffering
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Struggles and Life
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” Everyone longs for rest from labor and toil. This is specially true for peasants working the soil. But even those who in everyday life … Continue reading
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Tagged Discipline, Doing good, Poetry, Suffering
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Beyond the Rituals of Religion
All too often and for many people, the practice of religion easily degenerates into empty rituals of prayers, fasting and sacrificial offerings. And worse, religion deteriorates into prejudices and exclusions, then into hatred and violence. These practices of religion are … Continue reading
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Tagged Discipline, Doing good, Gratitude, Prayer
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Freedom
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Based on these noble and … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing good, Service
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Fears and Anxieties
What are the storms in my life that keep me terrified? What are my fears and anxieties? As a child, I used to be afraid of the dark. You could never send me alone into a dark room or a … Continue reading
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Tagged Discipline, Doing good, Growing Older, Healing, joy, Wisdom
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Beauty and Goodness
A fisherman, simple and weather-beaten, known for his doting mother-in-law He is mending his nets and a man comes along and tells him to follow. The fisherman drops everything and to the call he does hearken And he follows the … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Nature, Photography, The Good News
Tagged Doing good, Poetry
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The Heart as Core
Functionally, the heart is no more than an organ designed to pump blood throughout the whole body. No more, no less. It does not create blood. That is the function of the bone marrow. The heart does not even cleanse … Continue reading
Being like Birds and Wildflowers
There is a lot about the past I am truly grateful for. I have been so blessed I relish going over memories that have joyfully brought me to where and who I am today. But dwelling too much in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginnings, Blessings, Doing good, joy
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There is Good in the World
Today, I thank and praise God for all the parents who raise their children in the anonymity of millions of homes, expecting neither praise nor rewards but only striving that their off-springs have a better life than their own. Today, … Continue reading
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