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I’ve been married for over 16 years and I was pretty sure I had things figured out. Is my marriage perfect? No way, it’s not even close. However it is wrapped in love. So after 16 years I started wondering if love is all we need to make things work, to get by, to muddle [...]  On the way home from school after picking up my 14 year old daughter she asked, “Well, how does it feel to be 40?” I didn’t have an answer for her, but rather a question, “Don’t you mean from someone who is half dead? I mean if I’m really lucky I’ll live to be 80, so [...] I’ve benefited from the love of two moms. The first nurtured me, fed me, taught me right from wrong, and loved me unconditionally. She kissed my wounds, hugged away my sadness, laughed at my jokes and pushed me to greater things. She taught me to love, to learn and to live. She taught me to have [...] This morning I had coffee with a Brother in Christ. The discussion led to the difficulty of putting God in control. We both concluded that being a Christian is the hardest thing we’ve ever done. I’ve sat in church for years listening to various sermons on the difficulty of being a Christian and I spend years [...] Never mind this is the single largest Constitutional overreach by our federal government in the history of this [...] Yesterday was essentially like any other. My daughter arrived home in the back of her mothers car carrying a wad of paper, envelopes, mailers and other assorted junk. She anxiously handed me the small jumble and proceeded to inform me exactly how many pieces of mail I received. I just can’t wait…. yeah, whatever. I don’t [...] As my personal faith in God grows, I’m seemingly reminded more and more the words of a friend. He told me that the closer I try to get to God, the harder the devil will work to pull me back. I was reminded today of yet another reason so many people have trouble – or [...] My father sent me this list and I thought it worth passing on. Most notable to me are items nos. 5, 11, 17, and [...] This was an email I received the other day: President Barack Obama said in Turkey : “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” Do you know the Preamble for your state? . . Alabama 1901 [...] President and First Lady Obama will travel to Switzerland and plead with the IOC to move the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games to Chicago. Bernie Madoff, the king of ponzi schemes, will be offered a work-release from prison, but only if he accepts President Obama’s new Social Security Czar position. Tiger Woods will eventually wake up from his [...] |
Dan Brown; Doubleday 2009
 Tyndale; Tyndale House Publishers 2007
 J. R. R. Tolkien; Ballantine Books 1986 |
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