Category: Life Experiences
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Home By Way of Culvers
There is a sweet lady at our congregation with Williams Syndrome. She lives with her elderly mother and lots of people help take care of her. (Taking her on outings, out to eat, to and from church.) One night the person who was giving her a ride had a family emergency and so she asked…
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Bake Them A Cake
When I was little our Sunday school teacher said if there is a person you don’t like you should bake them a cake. The idea being that doing a kindness for someone you don’t like might make them more bearable, and you might even become friends. I think it’s a nice thought, but what if…
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Protect Your Women
I do not like the idea of living in a world in which men don’t protect women. I mean this in all areas of life. In the church, at work, at the post office, at the hardware store, I want to live in a society where men open doors, watch their language, carry the heavy…
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Door Knocking
An introverts worst nightmare… talking to strangers. In particular, approaching their house (uninvited) to ask them a question. It was a normal Sunday evening. I had arrived at the church building a few moments early and was visiting the ladies room. My friend was also in there and she said, “Hey! They need someone to…
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Clean House = Peaceful Mind
Jordan Peterson was the one who introduced me to this idea. If you want to make the world a better place start small and work outward. Start with a closet, then a room, then the whole house, then the yard and then your community. Awwlexis on Youtube said it’s important to make your space the…
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Starlight Shows
Kansas City has an outdoor venue called Starlight Theater. They have concerts, comedians and broadway shows come through each summer. I try to go every year (but some years the shows are duds.) I have seen… I think this is all I’ve seen… I wanted to see Little Mermaid again, but didn’t make it out.…
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Who Reads the Instructions?
Who actually reads the instructions when it comes to tasks like staining the deck? Not me… that’s for sure. So when I told my friend that I stained the deck when it was almost 100 degrees outside and she said, “Isn’t that going to turn into maple syrup and never dry out?” I said, “What?”…
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The Dark Side of (eye)Shadow
When I was a freshman in high school I started playing tennis. Not because I like it but because I had to choose a sport and the tennis season is the shortest of all the athletic seasons. (And half the time it would get rained out.) When I was about a freshman in high school…
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We Get What We Hate
I recently listened to a lecturer who said we get what we hate, and what we hold grudges about come back to us. So… I was thinking. What do I hate? Spiders. And I see spiders EVERYwhere. What do I hold a grudge about? My former friends abandoning me after college. And I know for…
Redheaded Jill 