Category Archives: Life Helps

one Smoker’s Journey

a heavy smoker – 3 to 4 packs of cigarettes a day for 12 years. I loved smoking and I never wanted to give it up – it was relaxing and satisfying, like a reward or a motivator to give … Continue reading

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Women I have known

POTENTIAL POSITIVES FROM NEGATIVES— (thoughts about “women” I have known) arrogance drove a thirst for knowledge to deny the “tape’” that said “you are stupid’ and,knowledge, when gained brought quiet confidence and no need to “prove” it to anyone judgemental … Continue reading

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Gospel – Good News of the Windmill

Deeper in the woods than I had ever gone before . . . that is where I found myself as I had just wandered without paying attention to where I was or where I was going. My mind and my … Continue reading

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Take It To the Limit – One More Time!

S T R E S S E D to the MAX! This plant is SO stressed – it needs some water in the worst way – when I saw it, I thought it was not going to make it . … Continue reading

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A Short Course in War — working 2024

besed on a talk given in the 1990s which was based on a life beginning in innocence journeying through many dark pits and exploring many paths seeking to understand the “war” I felt dictated the dramas in my life — … Continue reading

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Lessons in a Lantern, Light, Life

confusion . . . chaos . . . conflict . . . consternation . . .SO MANY ANSWERS – NO ANSWERStoo many LOUD voices demanding my “loyalty”in a time of violence and dissonance—all paths look dark . . . all … Continue reading

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Thou Shalt Not MURDER

MURDER – murder is to take away “life” – that could be physically, emotionally, or spiritually –Life is that force that flows throughout everything in existence and, therefore, murder is the taking away of that flow of Life In Matthew … Continue reading

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Seasons: cycles of Hope

the changing colors of the leavesshowing the cycles of Life – the leaves that fall to the groundfeeding the roots of the tree – the bareness of the treesmaking room for Spring’s growing – all speaking Hope for the nextseason … Continue reading

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Moonlight Mystery Madness

The clouds seemed to be surrounding the moon – the moon, full of light, so bright, and yet . . . it looked as if it might be covered by those clouds—blotted out, hidden, no longer seen . . . … Continue reading

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Pain, Loss, and a Dandelion

I saw the dandelion standing there – on a cool, Fall daywhen the dead leaves were lying all around andthe pictures of that dandelion from earlier in the year came to my mind. A colorful, life-filled yellow flower – considered … Continue reading

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