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I’m not always certain about the outcome of the choices I make because I cannot predict the outcome of those choices. But, the decisions I make are not based on a whim. I am careful to  consider the possible ramifications of what I choose to do or not do. Even then, the unexpected happens.   …

No one’s life is absent of hardships, setbacks, disappointments or tragedies. Sad things happen to us all. But as one writer put it, “Physical, mental, or emotional pain lived under the blessing is experienced in ways radically different from physical, mental, or emotional pain lived under the curse.” Henry Nouwen     Choices One of…

How researchers or scientists calculate how many thoughts any one person has on any given day is beyond me. Yet, somehow researchers have calculated that the average human being can have up to 50,000 thoughts in a twenty-four hour period. No wonder my head feels heavy at the end of a day.      …

Holidays can conjure up feelings we don’t want to feel, expectations we wish we did not possess and memories we’d like to forget. Mother’s Day can be one of those holidays. But, earlier this week, knowing that I’d need to write a blog on this day, I thought about how much motherhood and Mother Nature…