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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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A Valid Point

1464) I had a recent conversation with a friend who became very animated when speaking of a person who claims to be “religious.” (This was her word, not mine. I actually hate that word, but that’s another minute devotion by itself.) Anyway, the gist of what she was saying is, if you claim to be
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Wake-up Call

1463) Sometimes in life we experience the betrayal of someone who was supposed to be our ally. This person was someone who supported you and then, they shift and leave you left standing by yourself. These moments always bring heartache. James 1:6 describes this very thing when one moment, we are putting our trust in
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Perspective

1462) Quite a while ago, I read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. The Nazis sentenced Frankl, a psychiatrist, to Auschwitz (and several other camps) where he lost most of his family members. His insight into the human experience of suffering is powerful. Frankl said, “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you
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Have a Good Day

1461) We throw around the words, “Have a good day” frequently and we all would like to have it, but have you ever stopped to ponder what does make a good day? Or perhaps we need to phrase this as what is something that, if it’s in place, we have a better chance of having
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Safe!

1460) In the spring of the year COVID closed everything down, we teachers did many things to keep our kids progressing academically, as well as emotionally. One thing we did was meet in a car caravan and we drove by all our students’ houses and blew our horns and waved. Doing this simple thing twice
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