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A Woman Among Warlords
“I must make clear that only fate and history have made my name known. …I also know that there are women and girls all around the world who are willing and able to take a stand for their rights, no...
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Burden Future Generations?
There is a lot of talk about burdening future generations, but it isn’t new. What we do affects those ahead of us, for good or evil. “The Lord! The Lord! a God who is compassionate and merciful,...
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You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to be Right
Just finished reading Brad Hirschfield’s You Don’t Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism. Love it! It is easy to read, but a bit dense (not a novel after all). Perfect...
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6 Steps to Resolve Conflicts
To live in community is to find ourselves in conflict. Unless we willingly submit our whole selves to another person or organization, at some point we will disagree. Disagreement is usually not fun....
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3 Communication Tips That Changed My Life
If only all conversations can be as easy as talking with a princess! Sometimes we hear something, but it takes a while to sink in. It’s that learn by doing thing. Now, I heard the advice when it was...
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In God’s Image: Patience
I have to say that the last month has not been the easiest when it has come to my “real job”. So many of us here in the Midwest are feeling the delayed Spring in our bones. Even as hearty Minnesotans...
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Raised Right: One Woman’s Journey
As I’ve written in an earlier post, God has infused me with a drive to learn. Right now, I’m on a reading kick of women’s memoirs. And not just any stories, but those about personal growth/change....
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The American Dream…?…
It is hard to ignore the changes that are going on in our world. We may want to pretend there is a way to get back to the good ol’ days, but there isn’t. And were the days before this really any...
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“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”
Yes, a quote from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, my husband, son and neighbors would be proud. I have been thinking a lot about absolutes, or rather, thinking about how we claim we are right....
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Memoirs, Blogs and Sharing Our Lives
I’m a story teller. As a child I would tell myself stories to help me fall asleep, and one summer at camp my cabin mates had me tell them stories to do the same. But as an introvert who dread public...
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