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Will the Real Me Please Stand? “I am doing just fine.” I blurted. I lied to myself; I thought if I wanted the words to be true and then spoke…
Father’s Day 2018 is here. Many of us have mixed emotions – either because of disconnect, distance or death, we might not be looking forward to what today’s celebration brings.…
Who’s your hero? All my life I’ve looked up to people I thought were doing important things. As a five-year-old, I read Sleeping Beauty, loved Princess Aurora’s happy ending. I imagined…
“How could church people be so mean?” I thought to myself. Just a few hours earlier, my pastor- husband had been told to turn in his resignation. Now, I was…
Do you know who you are? You might say, of course, I am (your name). I work (your employment). I am single, married to (your spouse's name) and I have…
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I remember a few years ago I overheard my preschool son tell his sister, my elementary aged daughter, “You are not the boss of me.” There was another time, this…