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Image titled "Railway To Nowhere Land" used be permission of KM Cheng, Hong Kong. Click on photo to see KM's full Flickr photostream. There’s nothing like a little adversity to rid us of the illusions and false concepts we’ve built up in our lives. The challenge of unemployment has been having this effect in my [...]
Image titled “I want my mommy” by anyjazz65 My wife Carol has an amazing affinity for animals of all kinds. Our house is a virtual Noah’s ark of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other assorted, furry varmints. Each pet enjoys Carol’s special blend of care and attention. She has a natural ability to [...] Image by _gee_'s photostream. Click on the picture to see more images from him. The rumor mill was buzzing at work when I arrived there on Wednesday: layoffs were beginning again. Coworkers were gathered in small groups, speaking in hushed tones. As the morning dragged on, I overheard anxious and tearful clips of conversations [...] Image titled "Pacific Spirit" by lawmurray Many of the posts to this blog have been inspired by my prayer journal, but I’ve never shared an experience directly out of its pages before now. The following account is taken from my journal entries for Friday, February 20. I started as I do most mornings with my prayer [...] Image by Erika Mugglin It was my birthday last week. I’m 48 years old. Not a major milestone birthday like 50, but it got me thinking: this could be the halfway point in my life. My grandmother celebrated her 95th birthday back in December and she’s still going strong; it’s not unreasonable to think of [...] Image of Sandy by E. Mugglin It was Easter Sunday, 2005, and I was excited about going to church. This was going to be my first Easter church service since reclaiming my faith. I had been raised a Christian, but had stopped practicing my faith just as soon as I went off to college. I lived [...] Image by Joka2000 In the beginning, man believed that the earth was the center of the universe. The sun, the moon, and all the stars moved across the sky each day in a dance orchestrated by God, who looked down upon us from heaven beyond the stars. We were his chosen people, the ones He [...] The History Channel aired a fascinating program last week in its The Universe series on parallel universes. The Universe: Parallel Universes Some of the world’s leading physicists believe they have found startling new evidence showing the existence of universes other than our own. One possibility is that the universe is so vast that an exact replica [...] Image by Erika Mugglin, Heath, OH November was a great month for reading. I knew from past experience that I needed to bring several books with me to China to fill up the many hours of downtime during our travels. Just as I’d done on all previous trips, I visited the local library the day before departure [...] |
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