Who are you? How will you navigate this pain-filled, over-sexed, addicted, spinning world you were born into? What tools do you need to assuage pain, rejection, identity crisis, and fear of the future, and more than that the fear of dying? Some would say “Just look within yourself, and there you will find all that […]
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One of my Mother’s most famous quotes besides “I love you from the heart of my bottom“, was how she responded to compliments. When complimented my mother would say, “Oh, You just say that…(pause)…because you mean it.” “I’ll give you 20 minutes to knock that off” is a phrase she would use if someone was
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Already you are wondering if I have any grasp on the English language I am sure just by the title of this post. No, this word (The blog’s title) is not in the dictionary, but in the Morris house, it is understood alongside other words such as “availabiliwality”, and “confusational”. We love to make up
God, I am angry with you. You let me go through a horrific ordeal. I prayed and prayed and prayed that the madness would stop. Every morning, for years, I woke up wondering what evil would befall me. There seemed to be no end to the torment. People told me to find joy in the
We used to believe in You, God. We used to attend church and believe that how we lived our lives mattered to You and to our neighbor. We attended Sunday School, we sent our kids to Youth Groups, and we made our decisions with morality in mind. We prayed a lot. We committed much time
In Christopher Hitchens’ book “Mortality”, Christopher devotes a great part of his second chapter to the subject of prayer and the futility of it. With the angst of one suffering from a disease that has no cure, that would eventually take his life, Christopher writes the chapters of this book to process his life and
If you have ever attempted speaking a foreign language in a foreign country, you likely have made several mistakes. Pronunciation, tone, emphasis, and function in a sentence are the tell tell signs of one who knows their words, and those who do not. For instance, in Spanish the word soup and the word for toad
If ever I am at a hotel with cable TV, it is my weakness to be watching the Home & Garden Channel, otherwise known as HGTV. This was the case a few weeks ago when a friend and I took a trip to Sitka, Alaska to watch my husband and the other fishermen there during
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If you have ever experienced what I am writing about, perhaps you will add your comments to what I say. The feeling that inside of you is a time bomb ticking away– waiting to detonate. You feel desperate, and unable to handle what life has thrown at you. Some may call it a burden, or
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I find it amazing that many times in life, I find myself making decisions and drawing conclusions without complete facts or data. There is this desire to sit in the “outer court” with others and speculate, pontificate, postulate, induce, and deduce meaning, purpose, judgement, and actions. O, the blogosphere of ideas! We have come up
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