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View from the Edge
Early spring, a close friend was diagnosed with anal cancer late stages. She is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Her oncologist believes she will make it through. My friend, I’ll call her Heather, wants to believe this too. Heather has a serious agenda. Her objective is total healing. And to experience total healing, she must ask ...
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Trash or Treasure
My son collects “treasure.” He tucks away pieces of pencil graphite that he picks up off the floor of his classroom. These small 1/8″ pieces gather on his desk. I am not sure what he will do with them. But he values them. He also gathers plastic tops of various colors. Aluminum wrappers, colored in ...
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Do you know why Valentine’s Day exists? Yes to exchange loving sentiments, but the tradition was born of one man’s embrace of love’s significance – even at the risk of death. The legend goes that in 269A.D. Christian priest St. Valentine defied an edict from Emperor Claudius II forbidding marriage. This measure was issued to ...