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The Lessons We Need to Learn

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People often ask, “When am I going to know what I’m supposed to do with my life?”  For me personally, the question has transformed:  The only way I can know what I should be doing is if I focus on who I should be.  That doesn’t mean there aren’t magnificent things we’re supposed to do, but God can only work for us to the extent that He can work through us.

— Marianne Williamson

How do we figure out what we’re supposed to do in life?  For many of us, we may have just kept moving along doing what seemed to be obvious based on the feedback we were receiving at the time.  For others, perhaps there is a feeling of something that we’re supposed to do.

For me, there has been an ongoing feeling that my mission in life is to help others – through learning as much as I can about how we tick and teaching others whatever they want to learn.  Whether that actually is my mission in life, whether I actually have a mission in life – is still an Continue reading » The Lessons We Need to Learn

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Bouncing Back Through Contributing

We’re taking Thanksgiving week off, so we’ve selected some appropriate posts from the archives to re-publish this week.  We hope you enjoy them.


Ask anyone from the Greatest Generation and they will tell you, WWII was a team effort. People sacrificed. They bought war bonds. Women worked in factories – something they had never done before. People planted victory gardens. There was focus on what everyone could do to contribute. I wanted to be part of our current effort – not so much as a strike against an enemy, but as a supportive action for our military personnel.

About a year ago, there was an article on the front page of the online Washington Post about women who felt they needed to do more to support our troops in their efforts to fight terrorism. The women clip coupons. You know, the coupons that come in the mail, or in the Sunday newspaper. One of the members of the Book Club is Continue reading » Bouncing Back Through Contributing

Is Anybody Out There?

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This is an invitation – an invitation to join a conversation about making the most out of life no matter what it throws at us.  Ellie and I have been doing a lot of talking and we’d really like to hear from you.  Please, join the conversation.

I met a friend for dinner over the weekend.  We used to work together and we’ve been friends for a very long time.  Not wanting to be pushy, I waited until the end of dinner to ask her if she’d had a chance to go out and look at our new blog.  She said that she had, but that she didn’t know quite what to “do” with it.  Since she isn’t the first one to express this sentiment, I thought I’d take a stab at what you “do” with a blog.

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Bouncing Back Through Contributing

CouponsAsk anyone from the Greatest Generation and they will tell you, WWII was a team effort. People sacrificed. They bought war bonds. Women worked in factories – something they had never done before. People planted victory gardens. There was focus on what everyone could do to contribute. I wanted to be part of our current effort – not so much as a strike against an enemy, but as a supportive action for our military personnel.

Continue reading » Bouncing Back Through Contributing

Cup o’ Inspiration

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”

Simone de Beauvoir

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