Tag: conflicts
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Friend 🎩 or mom 👒
A little trick that helps me communicate with my adult special needs daughter–put the right hat on. (One time it was a sock because I was sick in bed……it still worked) Physical reminder for both of us Breaks habits from younger years Reminds me to listen, not train “I’ve heard of some people trying _____”…
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Opportunity
My feelings were wrong. Hubby said: “absolutely not; I do not want you to be a chat host at our online Church.” I felt my foot permanently on the brake, stifled, held back, marginalized and voiceless. What about my future all my wisdom and verbal skills, organization and drive?! Every feminist bone in my upbringing…
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Why is there suffering?
Hmmm…good point. Father, help me to focus on You. I don’t understand why things don’t work sometimes. Why have I been sick for seven-ish years? You could heal me in a snap. I’ve certainly asked You often enough. I remember that all You said was: getting sick IS your healing. (However that works ~ but…
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Stick it my pipe and 🚬 it
The thing about churches is they are full of broken people.( Like me.)Who else knows that they need Jesus better? Jesus was always catching flaque for hanging out with sinners. Right? But hurt people hurt people. That’s a thing. So I guard my heart at church. I give out information strategically. Assume that I am…
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Jack says…
In most historical wars it’s never really good versus evil. Except for world war II both sides are morally ambiguous. There are only confused people and less confused people. The better side doesn’t always win. It’s just up to God. CS Lewis Hmmm…
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Cuppa Conversation
…. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, I a fearful life— fear of death, fear of judgment— one is not yet fully formed in love. 1 John 4:17-18 MSG https://bible.com/bible/97/1jn.4.17-18.MSG
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🎁
My man and I had our weekly conflict date. Tuesday after work until we work it out or until one of us is dead. (Just kidding.) We keep to the rules of fair engagement as per Les and Leslie Parrot’s book The Good Fight. We walked to the gas station and got an unsweetened ice…
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Wise as a serpent; innocent as a dove
FLOAT like a butterfly 🦋 STING like a bee 🐝 Mohammed Ali Remember that famous description of Mr. Ali’s fighting style? Well! Jesus uses a similar kind of image to communicate how Christians must live in their world.
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