blessing | blessing
Mar.21.2013
My mother has been a devout Catholic all her life, not just the going to church kind or the making her kids go to sunday school kind but the good works visiting the sick and elderly kind. So when I heard that a new pope was going to be announced I rushed to the nursing home to turn on the TV...
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Jan.17.2013
I open eyes to see new worldCome out from night’s strong foldJust find the existence and remember himAs if watching the scene in film
What am I on this beautiful earth?Why is it that I fear of death?Is the life not that worth to live?I shut the eyes and start to believe
I am hale and...
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Oct.15.2012
Seriously, this couldn't have come at a better time.
After basking in eighty-one straight shimmering days of Pacific Northwest sunshine, I awakened at five-thirty this morning nearly as grumpy and sore as Jerry Sandusky after an evening horsing around with the prison tickle monster. Things were...
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Jul.13.2012
One of the many reasons I hope I am granted long life is that I think it is going to take me quite a while to finish rewiring my brain. For instance, if you are like me, a cache in your mind holds a photo album crammed with snapshots of decisive moments from your personal history. You know the...
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Jan.20.2012
The teaching that our words can either bless or curse is thousands of years old. This teaching is part of all spiritual traditions. Through our thoughts and words we can bless ourselves and others. When you begin to embrace the teaching that words can be used as a blessing or a curse it is...
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Jun.14.2011
I have a front row seat at the most amazing production ever created. The name of the production is '2 Sons and a Daughter'. It was created by two and birthed by one. To be able to sit and watch my children morph into halfway decent and fabulous human beings is a blessing.
My daughter, who just...
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Apr.11.2011
Passover 2011
This Passover, as we celebrate our ancestors’ freedom from slavery, we reconnect through our most important holiday with our centuries-long traditions. It is incumbent upon us to contemplate the broader concept of freedom and what it means to us as individuals, as members of...
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Mar.10.2011
Sunday is my favorite day of the week not only because I am able to go and praise and worship him with friends and family but because here is where my mind is silent and my brain cooperates. Here I am able to listen to that still quiet voice and I am also able to be heard. In this sanctuary there...
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Mar.17.2010
All talk about spring-seasonLoving it for obvious reason
Spring, Nature will bringFor seasons, it is the King
Love can create in heart springIf it bounces back like a spring
During spring flowers bloomAnd freshen one’s heart-room
Of course spring she will dwarfWhen she heartily makes a laugh
With...
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Dec.23.2009
Regardless of our various points of view on political, religious, and social issues, there are certain desires and hopes that transcend our differences and unify all of us as human beings. So with that thought in mind, I extend to all of you my personal blessing of Peace, Harmony, and Well-Being to...
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