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Valuable Cards
I have attended several conferences and have met hundreds of successful personalities. As it is expected that people would ask for their contact information, they prepare boxes of calling card printed...
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Shining In All Fairness
It can be downright depressing if you stop and think about it if you peruse the world news. If the early blight doesn’t ruin the lovely tomato plants in your garden, then the late blight will. Loved...
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Easter Lilies
Most of us pick up a potted Easter Lily or two as they appear in markets and flower shops, pay the few dollars they cost, and don’t give any thought to the great care and attention to detail that it...
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Glorious Morning Light
The darkness of the night broke into barely perceptible shades of gray. I was already up and dressed, packing the last of the gear into my bulky camera bag and strapping the tripod to the outside. A...
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Flight
Just watching birds effortlessly flitting through the air makes me want to mount up on wings as the eagle. Apparently I am not the only one, nor the first with the desire. The first successful manned...
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“Poor” Against Some Standard
First, let’s identify the nature of poverty. Is it a poverty of ideas, of spiritual development, of emotional health, or of wealth? We need to realize that we must always evaluate the word “poor”...
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Eye 2 Eye
I don’t know why it is, but we are all extremely eye-conscious. We can tell when someone is looking directly at us. When two people have their gaze locked on each other, we call it eye contact. If, for...
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Seed Germination
We have just been out planting seeds in our garden – big ones such as peas, beans, and squash, and little ones such as lettuce, basil, and radish. After preparing the soil, we made the thin little...
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Thoughts of “Forever”
Forever. The concept is foreign to me. Have I been programmed by the deceiver to believe that every forever eventually comes to an end? “O king, live forever.” None of them ever did. Museum specimens...
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Acacia Protection
This morning I had to clear fast-growing weeds and young trees that were overwhelming a small dogwood tree that I had planted a few years back. Whether a natural or artificial clearing, the sunshine...
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Why Should My Heart Be Sad?
From today’s Daily Reading Some winters here in Michigan it seems as if we can go for weeks without seeing the sun. The lake-effect snow sets in, and after day it’s dark and gloomy. Don’t get me wrong....
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O let Me Ne’er Forget
Today’s Reflection My mother doesn’t know who I am anymore. Every time I go into her room, I say “hi, Mom.’ Sometimes she smiles with recognition. More and more she stares blankly, as if I am a total...
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The Hands
Having just spent s couple hours studying diagrams of the two dozen bones of the hand along with the muscles that move them (some of them located on the forearm), I do believe that the human hand is...
View ArticleHE is The Ruler Yet
Who or what is in control here, anyway? A terrible auto accident leaves a person bleeding beside the road. Blood loss is significant. The victim’s tissues are not getting enough oxygen. In the cells...
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Idolatry
House cats just have to be a special creation of God to teach us important lessons of patience and servant-hood. My husband and I have not one but two teacher cats, But wait. What am I saying? Let me...
View ArticleMother’s Care
The way that animal parents care for their offspring varies widely depending on the creature in question. For example, pregnant leather-back turtles crawl up on the beach at high tide, scoop out a...
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Today to ponder. It is nearing the end of April, and today I had an FOY experience. That’s extreme birder’s coded lingo for “first of the year” sighting or identification of a bird. That is, for the...
View ArticleElephants and Acacias
A closely related to the bullhorn acacia is the whistling-thorn acacia growing on African grassland. Jacob Goheen of the University of British Columbia in Canada and Todd Palmer of the University of...
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Arbre du Tẻnẻrẻ
It was a single tree, growing all by itself in an immense wide-open space. Then along came a drunk driver and knocked it down. Apparently that 1973 accident was the sad end of the Arbre du Tẻnẻrẻ...
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Marriage and Woes
Marriage is a game of a lifetime, you have to gamble, you have to struggle and overcome the differences. When you said YES for marriage you might have thought you have entirely known your partner, you...
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