Painting by Norman Rockwell, The Gossips, 1948 ********************************** A Jewish Fable by Shoshannah Brombacher < http://www.chabad.org >    In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people.  He could not help himself.  Whenever he heard a story about somebody he knew, and […]
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   Bitterness has a tenacious way of taking root deep within the soul and resisting all efforts to weed it out.  Bitterness occurs for many reasons. It might come from deep hurts you received as a child, hurts you cannot forget. Time, rather than diminishing the hurt, only seems to sharpen the pain. Bitterness
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   No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time.  We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home.  But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard.  The only fatal thing is to
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In the opening story of yesterday’s meditation on Biblical parenting, a mother was overheard recommending yelling as a way to handle the misbehavior of children. In the following bit of wisdom, Christian author James Dobson describes why anger and yelling are ineffective motivators. Discipline is crucial, said this author of a best-selling book titled Dare
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Galatians 5:22-23a —  The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. ————————- Christian pastor, author, and speaker Bob Hostetler put together this monthly prayer list in 2005. He developed it as a way to pray for his children. In addition to daily prayers for their guidance and
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STORY #1    Many years ago, Al Capone (pictured above on left) virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for gambling, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, bank robberies, prostitution, and murder. He once said, “It’s not that I enjoy robbing banks and killing people; but it keeps me out of
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Above painting: The Gossips, Norman Rockwell, 1948 —————— I am more deadly than the screaming shell of a howitzer. I win without killing. I tear down homes, break hearts, and wreck lives. I travel on the wings of the wind. No innocence is strong enough to intimidate me, no purity pure enough to daunt me.Â
Posted September 21, 2018, at:  http://www.dwellingintheword.wordpress.com    Once when visiting with a friend, I was relating an incident which had caused friction and ill will between a mutual friend, Jack, and another person. Jack was quite hurt and discouraged by what had happened, and frankly, the other person was clearly at fault.    My
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    “I am not happy, and life is short, so I need to go after this one chance at happiness,” he said, explaining why he was about to do something that was obviously wrong and stupid; that is, obvious to everyone but himself.    “Yes,” said his friend, “life is short, so whatever it
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 96 years ago today. Â He died April 4, 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Â Five months earlier, in a sermon to his congregation on November 5, 1967, King said this: You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be.
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