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Entries Tagged as 'Reflections'

Season of Prayer: God, Indeed, Knows The Details

April 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Families, Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

Tom & I are in a season of prayer for several people very close to us.
Some are family members and some very good friends.  The relationships run together, which is as it “should” be in the life of a Christian, I think.  Don’t you?
I’ve not slept well the past couple of nights after about 2 [...]

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Mosaics

April 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Inspirational, Reflections

“We each build mosaics from the brokenness of our lives that will gleam bright in Heaven from the light of the Son. Each mosaic shall be different, but each shall be beautiful in its own right. So, gather the broken glass of your dreams together and let [...]

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Back Home; Long, Slow, But Full Recovery Expected, So Far, A "Bit" Better Each Day

April 9th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Health, Medical, Reflections, Tom & Me

After eight long days and seven even longer nights in Louisiana Heart Hospital following what proved to be five heart bypasses, Tom was given the release to come home.  We got here about 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, with his best friend Ron here to greet us and help Tom get into the house from the [...]

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Reflections In My Mind

March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Humor, Perspective, Reflections, Uncategorized

I want to throw out some of my thoughts today.  These are things I’ve been thinking about of late and things going on that I’d like to get some feedback on, if you will.
I said this and the next two or three posts would be to “wrap up” last November’s Andrews Family Memories Tour of [...]

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Today Is Question Day

March 4th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Blogging, Friends, Perspective, Reflections

I’ve decided that today shall be “Question Day” here at Finding Direction.  You ask me questions and I’ll answer.  Any subject/topic, full of meaning or meaningless, things that have really been bugging you about me/us/the “fam” that you don’t know, but would like to know, anything philosophical or educational that you think I might have [...]

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If You Get A Message From "Me" & "Tom" From Facebook – Let Me Know

March 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments · Humor, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

For those of you who are Facebook friends – my Facebook account has been hacked.  FB has disabled my account, so that not even I can reach it at the moment.  A good blogging friend of mine had the presence of mind (and know how) to contact FB and tell them my account had been [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009: Flippin

February 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Stories, Tom & Me, Tom's Family, Uncategorized

Resuming our Arkansas Memories tour the next morning, Monday, November 2, 2009, we started off the morning early (well, some of us – I was still down in bed) in our rental house, where the Andrews/Jolly clan gathered on the deck:

Dickie, Jimmy, “Tommy,” Debbie and cousin, Oliver looked bright and happy.  The day was gorgeous [...]

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