Tag: blessings
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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March 31, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
As many of you know, I've been absent from these hallowed spaces for several months, since Christmas brought my mother-in-law to our town. Frustration is a favorite motivator for me, and I have used . . .
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April 27, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
There's smart and then there's me. I'm smart--sort of.
I don't know the right thing to say at a party. I don't do social situations. I couldn't read a social cue to save my life, . . .
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October 08, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
The labyrinth shows me that my path will lead me to God without fail, without danger. I will not be lost. Even when I do not know where I am, the path leads me to God, for I set my intention to seek God . . .
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August 15, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
This is the first of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles. In it, I describe the road that led to my reading ACIM.
I've been a seeker all of my life. Some of my earliest memories . . .
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August 15, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
A Course in Miracles is divided into several sections. The section on which these articles focus is the "Workbook for Students." It contains 365 lessons, one for each day of the year.
A few . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
This is the third in a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
Years ago, a friend asked me "Where is God?"
I looked around the room in confusion. I couldn't put a "where" . . .
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August 19, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
This is the fourth of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
"Why am I here?" The question is ancient and universal. Religions seek to answer it with varying degrees of success. ACIM . . .
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May 18, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Something made me really angry today. Not a little pissed, but blindly enraged, ferociously, murderously angry.
I know it is unhealthy for me to be angry. I know I should love the person I see as the . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
How can you stand her? The aunt/cousin/uncle/mother/father/drama queen relative rears his or her ugly head, and we ask that question. This is how I figure it:
Ninety-nine percent of the time, the problem . . .
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May 19, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Geez. I'm tempted to give you five qualities about which I am positive, but here goes.
1. I'm loyal. It's pretty simple, I don't turn my back on people, friends, neighbors, family. Couldn't . . .
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August 22, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
Husband told me today that he had applied for an inspection for the roof, which was his way of warning me NOT to accost, harass, or shoot at any city inspectors I find on our property.
Ordinarily, . . .
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October 27, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
My grown daughter went out last night ot a Halloween party. We heard her come in about bedtime, but she went back out. This morning, my car was gone and I needed it, so I asked her dad to call her, because . . .
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April 13, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
My reading last week in A Course in Miracles was Lesson 335 in the workbook or students: "I choose to see my borther's sinlessness." I often tend to gloss over the titles and head for the . . .
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May 18, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
This gorgeous young man just came strutting up into my yard.
He brought along a lady friend, but I don't mind. He really thinks he's something, and I have to agree.
I'm pleased he stopped . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
In "Murphy's Rule for Old Houses" I expounded on the ins and outs of fixing up an elderly dwelling, discussing in depth the lengths to which one must go to "keep the ship afloat" . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Here are five truly bad ideas guaranteed to make life hell:
1. God will only love me if I am good/perfect.
2. God will punish me if I am not good/perfect.
I call these two ideas "The Heresy . . .
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June 29, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
Because our weather order got lost in the mail, we have been having pot luck during the great roofing event this week. The Pot has been full to the brim with rain, except when it was ungodly hot or dark. . . .
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July 12, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
Hey, everybody. I got a cool phone call from a civil engineer I know yesterday. She has me working on her paper about fuzzy logic and crane electrocution accidents. This is majorly complicated and kewl, . . .
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April 28, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
Before I go back to my oil and ges wells, I thought I'd share a slice of life with you:
The breeze was warm and gentle
when I hung the red sheets on the line.
You can see them a block away, . . .
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