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Listening is Hard Work

1484) School has just started for me and one thing that wears me out is the demand for my attention. I have wondered how many times my name has been called out during a single day. Would it be upward to 100? It seems like it. When all the children in a classroom call on
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The Problem of Grace

1474) There are times when I really enjoy reading something that truly stretches my mind and urges me to contemplate something I haven’t really thought about. Much of C.S. Lewis’ and Viktor Frankl’s works are gold mines of consideration. Their words have also encouraged and challenged me to write several “scholarly essays” and I have
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The Domino Effect

1472) It amazes me when I see a video of someone who has set up hundreds of dominos, so with one gentle push, the whole “chain” of the tiles will fall over, one after another. There’s a lot we can learn from watching this chain reaction and one lesson reminds me of Jonah, chapter 1.
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No More Shame

1471) Sometimes I have felt ashamed of something I said or did. Who hasn’t? But have you considered that shame and remorse are two different things? Shame is something negative you feel about yourself where remorse is when you have done something wrong and you’re sorry about it. Shame is a lethal weapon Satan uses
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Feeling Outnumbered?

1470) I usually have recess duty during the school year and I rarely mind. I watch the kids as they interact and there is something I see regularly, under the basketball hoop. I often see teams being formed that are very uneven. The “better” players always want to team up and they soften this out-of-balance
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Understood

1469) There is a need buried deep inside each of us; it is the need to be understood. We turn all different ways to find somewhere we can know someone understands us. When we say things poorly. When we don’t use enough words. When we use too many words. When we coat these words with
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A Good Example

1468) I have a small sewing business on the side along with my writing and teaching and whenever I have to order a specific fabric, I often run into problems. What is it? Well…my Post Office box address is in one small town and my physical address is in another. (I know, it’s complicated.) When
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Fighting

1467) In my many decades of teaching, there has been one major thing that has scared me more than any verbal threats or upset parents and that is when there’s a fight among my students. The anger I have seen and the violence it stirred have seared into my memory, and I wish I could
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Under Control

1466) The weather around the world has taken a front seat in many news outlets. Why? We see extreme heat, cold, flooding and drought. There is the fear of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and typhoons. Many of these are predicted as things that will be prevalent in the last days, but whether or not this
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Reliable

1465) How reliable are you? If you say you will do something, do you do it? Are you on time? Do your supervisors have to check and see if you’ve done what you are supposed to or do they know from recent history that you are reliable?  Joshua 1:1-5 reminds us God will always keep
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