This week has been off to a good start for out-of-the-box living. I have three new experiences, and the week isn’t even half-done! Health On Monday, I got myself a personal trainer. This is something else I’ve never done before. I’ve joined gyms before, and I’ve tried Weight Watchers, but the problem I have is […]
Category: Thinking
A little less than six months ago, an idea was born. I was about to celebrate my 43rd birthday, and I decided it was time to step out of my comfort zone, to step out of my box, and to embrace new experiences. During the first six months, I got quite a few experiences. I […]
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Happy New Year!!
So, here we are at the end of another year and the beginning of a new one. A blank canvas to start fresh on. But before moving forward, it never hurts to look back to where you’ve been. 2011 was a year of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, triumphs and tribulations. (but isn’t every […]
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Thanks!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAo2iZ9vWHg&feature=related] This has been a hard month for me. As you can tell, I haven’t written anything since October. Dealing with the anniversary of my wife’s death on the 8th, and then the prospect of “celebrating” the holidays alone had left me with little to say and little desire to be out-of-the-box. I had intended […]
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One Moment in Time
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFHAvULvJ0] This is a blog I’ve been wanting to write for a little over a month, but it never seemed appropriate until now. I had learned a phrase in the middle of September that I had never heard before. I had understood the concept behind it, but I’d never had a simple, succinct way of […]
As my long-time (and maybe even my short-time!) readers know, I’ve been spending the last few weeks revisiting a study I had done on the fruits of the Spirit five years ago, and comparing my thoughts back then with my thoughts now. Here, for your reading pleasure, is my blog on goodness from 2006. “But […]
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Gentle Pen
There’s nothing like taking a good long look in the mirror to really see the areas you might be lacking in. These last few weeks, I’ve been doing just that in revisiting Galatians 5:22-23. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no […]
This week’s study is on gentleness, and I find that I am being put to the test again. I had to reread this myself today, in order to put things in the proper perspective. Here for your reading pleasure is my blast from the past on gentleness. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, […]
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Post – Patience
As promised, I do indeed have plenty to say about the past week, and I think it’s safe, now that it’s officially over. My focus for the week was on longsuffering, one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And it was a week filled with plenty of opportunities for me to practice patience. One […]
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Past Patience
As happened the last time I reached longsuffering in my study, my patience was tested this past week. I’ll write more about my present patience issues later. In the meantime, I wanted to share my blog from the last time with you. Enjoy! PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE… 8/5/06 “But the fruit of the Spirit is […]