Category: life lessons
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Bring Your Child to Work Day: A Piece by 10 Year Old Alyssa Wolff
Be Brave and Know you are Special You are very special no matter what people say. We all have special talents, we just need help letting them out! The number one objective is to be brave and follow your heart. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being…
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Signs on a Spiritual Journey: A Message From 1998
Life has many interesting twists and turns. After my dad died in 2011, I found a free writing I had done and given to him. I’ve read it a couple time in the last few years and didn’t have any acknowledgment of when I wrote it. Many of the concepts I still believed, but I…
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Stop Comparing and Start Living!
Have you ever caught yourself thinking or saying, “Well, if I had their life, I could…?” I know I have. I used to give myself that excuse. I have also heard people use my life as their excuse. There is something we are not looking at inside if we are being critical or comparing on…
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5 Ways to Stop Abusing Ourselves: How to Bring Healthy Relationships into Our lives
If you are one of the many people who have wondered what a healthy relationship looks like, more than likely you are guilty of abusing yourself. Why do I say this? Because healthy people don’t have to ask the question, they just have healthy relationships. This isn’t just an outer appearance healthy; this is the…
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24 Hours
“Uproot self—the channel-blocker. Do not plan ahead, the way will unfold step by step. Leave to-morrow’s burden. Christ is the Great Burden-bearer. You cannot bear His load and He only expects you to carry a little day-share.” -Two Listeners, Ed. A.J. Russell God Calling After a whole lot of praying and confusion, I keep getting…
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Oh Grief!
I haven’t written for a while, because quite honestly, I’ve been lost in grief. In October my “Gifted mother” (GM) went home to my dad in heaven. So, not only am I going through the grief of losing her, but also because we need to sell their family home, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing…
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30 Days of Gratitude
Gratitude is something we can never get too much of, ESPECIALLY during the holiday when stress levels can reach all-time highs. In November, I did a daily dose of of gratitude every day on www.facebook.com/fromalovingplace . Now, here is a challenge for those who want to take it a little further. Each day at the beginning and/or…
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Raising Children in A World of Addiction
Facing addiction from the outside is hard enough, but when children are involved it is a whole different ball game. In the past few years there has been a significant increase in grandparents taking the role of caretakers due to kids getting taken away from addicted parent(s) or one parent having to take on…
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Prepared to Learn: Getting an Unexpected Lesson
I recently attended the final Hay House I Can Do It conference in Ft. Lauderdale. I was amazed with all the speakers. I took tons of notes and listened to every detail that I could get to stick. I was surrounded by over 1,000 positive and loving people in one room. The energy of the room lifted…
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When the Pain Is Real
I have been writing about emotional pain and suffering since I started this blog, but until last week I hadn’t had much experience with the concept of dealing with so much emotional pain and physical pain all at once. I like to believe I’m a very compassionate person, but until I suffered from what I’m…
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