Love Thy Neighbor.” It’s especially hard to “love thy neighbor” these days. When you watch current events and hear a lot of negative news, you can’t help but feel angry, frustrated, desperate, depressed, and sometimes a feeling of resignation. How Do We Cope? What have we become? Where is this world heading to? When will we STOP complaining, bickering, and throwing stones at each other? With this time of uncertainty, failed leadership and governance, and lack of understanding of this new health crisis, how do we cope? The Best Time Isn’t this time the best time to hold on to each other? Isn’t this an excellent opportunity to reach out…
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Things I Want to Tell My Daughter Before Going Off to College
My daughter is now 18-years old and about to go to college. Soon, she will be out in the real-world mingling with real people from all walks of life. Sometimes, I can’t help but be scared for her. Can she handle it? Is she ready for it? How will she fit in? The New Generation I want to tell her many things, but I am not prepared for how she will react. Now that she is more “matured,” it has not been easy to share with her things that I, an experienced adult, have learned in the 50+ years of my life. My point of view seems insignificant than the…
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Is Anyone Listening?
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Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” (Matthew 26:51-52) What Did Jesus Mean? What did Jesus mean when He said these words? Did he mean that the person who drew the sword to hurt or kill someone will also die by a sword? Literally? Does that mean a police officer will die by the use of a gun because he uses his weapon for work? Or, if someone…
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Valentine’s Day
Every day should indeed be Valentine’s Day. We should not be expressing our love to our partners only on February 14th. But somehow, expressing love on any other day is usually forgotten. Our busy lives get in the way of showing our appreciation to our partners. We overlook the beauty of our loved ones. We take for granted the things they do for us daily. We forget to say “Thank you” or “I care about you” or the best sentence there is, “I love you” because we are simply out of words by the end of the day due to being tired from work. And in the morning, when we…
