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Entries from October 31st, 2007

Carve Your Own Jack-O-Lantern

October 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Here’s a link to a really neat site where you can carve your own Jack-O-Lantern online and then see it light up from the inside when you’re finished.  I hope you enjoy!  It’s rather fun, and I’m not a big Halloween person, either. Cheers & Blessings to each of you today!  Dee 

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When There Are No Words

October 30th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality

Sometimes in life there are no words.  The expressions of the heart must rise above words to flower in more subtle, yet meaningful ways. This occurs when one is confronted with death.  What is there to say, really.  Death is the great unknown for all of us.  We are all going to die, yet none [...]

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Thinking of Death as Sleep

October 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Inspirational, Spirituality, Uncategorized

If Christ had done nothing more for humanity than give it the word "sleep" in place of "death," He would have been the greatest benefactors.  He taught new truth about death, explaining that it is not what it seems.  It is to life what sleep is to the day.  Sleep rests and restores the body [...]

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The Relativity of Cold & Other Asides

October 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Health, Reflections, Uncategorized

I think my blood has thinned from living in the south for so long.  It’s turned cooler and I’m about to freeze to death.  The high yesterday was 56 degrees and it was cloudy all day and windy and damp.   This morning it is still windy with northwest wind blowing across with still lots [...]

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Rainy Days & Mondays

October 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Perspective, Philosophical, Poetry, Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

 It’s raining this morning and then it’s supposed to turn cold.  Of course, cold is a relative term here in the deep south.  It’s what the rest of United States might call cool with warm days.   Be that as it may, it will be a nice change.  It’s been rather warm the past several [...]

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Beauty Where We Least Expect It

October 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Inspirational, Reflections, Spirituality

I very rarely forward emails sent to me any more and even more rarely ever offer any of them here, but today I received one from a school mate and just had to pass it along.  It is a video of a British phone salesman who doesn’t look like much on the outside, but wow! [...]

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The Greatest Gift

October 16th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Poetry, Reflections, Spirituality

                        The Greatest Gift                  Oh God, in my striving to know you                     And understand you                What knowledge, what truth is there                      that I can learn                That has not already been learned       [...]

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