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The Necessity of Forgiveness

(8/31/18. CBB) I serve a useful purpose in life…..I give lots of people the opportunity to explore and practice forgiveness! A friend shared this bit of wisdom she had seen: ”Just saw this quote on my friend’s page…..”“Fellowship with God and being useful to Him does...

Axing Anxiety

(8/31/19) Yesterday I had a sudden, bona fide all-out, in-my-face panic response to an emotional trigger. I logically knew what was happening to me physiologically and emotionally and could not stop it. I’ve watched enough people in panic and waited it out with them...

A Penny’s Worth of Honesty

“Honesty is such a candidly refreshing thing…. and stands out like a beautiful flowering tree when observed in someone whose otherwise anonymous posture is not forced to tender it. A mere penny’s worth of honesty is so much more valuable than a bank account full...

Love As I Have Loved

In Matthew 22:27 Jesus gives a concise summary of the Old Testament Law and Prophets in response to the cagey goading of the Pharisees: 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with...

Determined Even Then

(CBB 8/31/22) Does anything say, “Go ahead, underestimate me….let’s see what happens”….. than the slight forward lean of the torso and head, set of the jaw, scrutinizing look of the eyes, Mona Lisa-esque non-committal mouth, and crossed arms of this...

August 27, 2024. 4:44a.m.

My eyes opened as my waking consciousness stirred from slumber. I looked toward the ceiling at the red projection of the time from the bedside clock. My Mother had given it to Bill and me as a Christmas gift at some point in the last ten or so years. ”4:44”- an...