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I have sat with this message all day. I kept thinking there is more. But I guess not.

Our message is actually a task. We are asked to take a piece of paper and divide it up into quadrants. Each quadrant is a season; fall, winter, spring, summer. In each season […]

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…change the view.

Life can be challenging, exciting, scary, etc. The bottom line is we don’t always know what to do. When that happens, it is easy to just freeze in place, and not do anything.

Our message today tells us that is exactly the wrong thing to do. […]

“Love Came Down at Christmas” by Diane Wendorf

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Our message was exactly this, “We are all born with gifts from God meant to be shared.”

Pretty clear and I am not sure if I am meant to embellish or not. But I will say a few things. […]

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I once read that the world’s problems could be solved with the two words personal responsibility. You can think on that for yourselves but I tend to think it is true. We try to focus on the positive in this blog. It is after all called HOPEs Rising. But […]

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I don’t think we have ever had turtles show up in our message before. Today we were given two things, turtles and the lyric by the light of the silvery moon, your silvery beams will bring love’s dreams. So what does it mean?

In Ted Andrew’s book, Animal-Speak, he […]

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Our message is simply this…

“If you have love, laughter, family, family, and friends, you are blessed.”

…and I would add…life is good.

If we are blessed with these things, we need to be grateful. If we are not, we should seek them out and do what […]

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Our message came in via the song, “My Way” by Frank Sinatra. The song is too long to post so I will just put the link.

google.com/search https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=lyrics+to+my+way Any one of us will read this song today and identify with specific parts of […]

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Yes, that is the way the message came in but it is to emphasize that this is not the way to achieve balance.

If you remember this fable, the fox invited the stork for dinner. He served him soup which the stork could not eat with his long bill. […]

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I love this Deepak Chopra quote. Subtlety it reminds us that we have a choice. Are we seekers or are we content with ho hum?

I love this message for a second reason. It reminds us that we are all blessed with clues that are put in front of […]

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My goodness, we all experience this sometimes. Probably more than we are aware of.

Sometimes we are bombarded with noise…all kinds of noise. It is hard to hear ourselves think. Sometimes that is the point, we are bombarded rhetoric from people who don’t want us to think for ourselves. […]