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Dear Neighbor, My Dad always said that sooner or later, people always reveal who they are. He was right, of course. The challenge is the time you spend waiting for other people to see. But if you focus on healing and building a life you love, days become years and at some point it just…
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There are five basic stages of life: child, teenager, adult, mid-life, and old. Not all of these stages have clear parameters in my brain, but as I am not yet retired, I am not yet old. So that puts me firmly in mid-life. Or so I thought, until my old boss pointed out that mid-life…
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The past year in the U.S. has been hard to watch. The people we’ve elected, the decisions we’ve supported, the direction we’re heading. It all makes me mad. Although I haven’t always succeeded, I’ve tried not to add to the noise because things already feel so divided. But I keep coming back to this: when…
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My word for 2026 is commitment. Unlike 2025 when I struggled to hear a word, this one came to me months ago. Seemingly a follow-up or wrap-up of things that have been on my heart for a few years now. This year’s word is specifically about the commitments God makes to us. Commitments we can…
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All Saints Day always scared me as a child. The sound of each bell tolling as names were solemnly read aloud. Death was scarier then, in the fire and brimstone of 1980s end-of-the-world preaching about the wide path that leads to destruction and billboards that asked me where I would go if I died tonight.…
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Brave, Anyway 