Category: Wisdom
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How to Bring Calm to the Angry – Proverbs 29
It was fantasy just a short time ago – to think pushing a magic button could produce a perfectly cooked meal in just minutes. Now it’s reality. It’s magic When I was a child I believed saying the words “abra cadabra” could make amazing things happen. A few years later TV showed me it could…
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What I Learned from my Dog – Proverbs 26
It had been my dream, and my husband’s, to some day give our boys a puppy, and when Molly Brown Dog came to our family she was welcomed with gusto. At first I was amazed, even delighted, with the shenanigans she got into. Forget that she’d consume what had fallen out of the baby’s diaper,…
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They Lie to Me – Proverbs 23
Do you argue with ads? We got rid of our TV a long time ago, but I used to talk back to commercials spouting their boisterous messages about my shortcomings without their product. Or the glamour girls were passed off as women I should emulate. Or buying “X” would ensure my good health, appeal, or…
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The Do-Nothing – Proverbs 21
My husband was gone last week for a hunting trip in Eastern Oregon, and I stayed home and did very little. In fact you could say I was downright lazy. I had some reasonable excuses: A head cold and the fact he likes to take a daily nap during his time in the wilderness. Why…
