JOY in Our Life: Just When You Need It! Waiting my turn in the commercial vehicles lane at the U.S border in Lewiston NY was taking longer than I had patience for on a hot day. The noonday sun was putting everything into shining relentlessly. To get there I had driven two hours in heavy…
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The lamp pictured has been a blessing to me at my desk for many years. The special light helps dispel Seasonal Affective Disorder – SADs – and to keep its user looking up emotionally with JOY instead of sadness caused by not enough sunlight. The many JOYful adornments on it serve the same purpose. The…
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JOY in Our Life : this is a lesson about JOY. Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find it. As I write this it is after two a.m. on a rainy night in May. Diamond and I met each other in the hallway as we each headed downstairs, she bug eyed, shivering…
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JOY in Our Life: Sometimes JOY pops up and grabs you when you least expect it. A couple of weeks back I felt prompted to pray for a woman who has purchased education materials from my JOY Center of Learning business. So I did. A week ago I was at a store a few blocks…
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My thumb is always very painful so I recently made a splint to keep the knuckle from bending. It took a lot of work to create it with my right hand, considering I am left handed. As I was bagging groceries I realized my thumb was in significant pain and my splint was gone. I…
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JOY in Our Life : Sometimes something just does not make any sense, no matter how hard you work at coming up with an explanation or reason. No amount of blaming, playing the “if only I had …” or “had not …” games where you fill in the …will resolve the questions of how or…
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JOY in Our Life: Majune is my special month. Sometimes the “normal” just doesn’t fit your needs and so I arbitrarily chose many years ago to create a new frame of reference. For me, from mid-May to mid-June (Majune) marks many times of sad and of happy memories. The pictures of my back yard with…
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March 4, 2016 · As seen from the hammock as I awakened from a nap this morning in Cancun Mexico. Gentle breezes, singing birds, a person gliding through the air on a parachute (upper left corner) – Yup – I could enjoy this life! Gently swinging in the hammock was wonderful. Sometimes you just have…
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February 29, 2016 · On this, the last day of Feb. 2016 I reflect back on our journey of learning during the Love month. To the tree and church each week we added various styles of hearts and lights to represent people and concepts. On the 28th we added large hearts in recognition of the…
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February 28, 2016 · During the month of February we have been celebrating God’s love and the power He gives through His love to those who call Him Lord. The little church sitting on the table is filled with lights representing people being charged up and fired up as they meet with God in a…
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