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Rest Assured

    What keeps you up at night?   Worries about my family Frustration with our nation Money troubles What? I sleep through it all There are nights when sleep just doesn’t come. My head is full of yesterday’s regrets … Continue reading

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Celebrate the Love

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Time to Forgive

Daylight Savings Time and St. Patrick’s Day, all in the same week.   Now is a good time to forgive. It will bring out the saint in you.       [As a teenager, Patrick was captured by Irish pirates … Continue reading

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Careful How You Wrap that Gift

Yesterday, I said time was a gift from God.   Lord, forgive me for wrapping your gift in the coarse paper of bitterness and anger. Teach me to keep it wrapped in the sparkle of love and the glitter of … Continue reading

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The Gift of Time

Genesis 1:14-19 (NIV) And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years” . . . … Continue reading

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Just a Minute

  How do you feel about time?     Too much time Never enough time Time’s a wastin’ Time change. Again. In 1784, Ben Franklin wrote “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light,” joking that the people of … Continue reading

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Work the Problem

I remember when tens of thousands of Hmong refugees came to the United States in the late 1970’s. Thousands of volunteers helped with their resettlement, some of our friends and family among them. I offered only second-hand help–mostly watching our … Continue reading

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Immigration Is Hard

I knew a couple who came to the US from the Soviet Union. They were in an American grocery store for the first time, close to Christmas. They wept with joy as Silent Night played over the sound system. A few … Continue reading

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Unhappy Ever After?

We’d like to think that our immigration stories all have happy-ever-after endings.  But I worry about those sneaking across the border. How many young people are picked up by perverts, recruited by brutal gangs or abandoned by coyotes who promise a … Continue reading

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Rules of Debate

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