Tag: writing
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Series: Life LessonsWednesday, August 19, 2026 In my 76 years of living, I have seen a lot of things change. I grew up on a family farm in Mississippi. Family farms were everywhere then. They were not just businesses. They were homes, ways of life, and often something one generation expected to pass along to…
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Some Places Become Holy
Series: Places That Shape UsThursday, August 13, 2026 What was your first classroom like? My first school had six grades in one room with a single teacher. That was in 1954. Over the span of my elementary school, high school, college, and seminary education, I have sat in many classrooms. I have been taught by…
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We All Stand on the Shoulders of Someone
Who has inspired you to become a better person? As I have grown older, I have come to realize that none of us reaches this point in life alone. We all stand on the shoulders of people who believed in us, challenged us, encouraged us, or quietly showed us what it means to live with…
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Fear Is Part of the Journey, But Not the Final Chapter
Series: What Book Changed the Way You See the World? How many of you remember the Weekly Reader we received in school? It introduced us to new books and gave us the opportunity to order them. I looked forward to those little newspapers and the adventures they promised. Growing up just after World War II,…
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Open Heart. Open Hands. Clear Boundaries.
Today’s Curious Pilgrim topic is “We all stand on the shoulders of someone who believed in us.” The greatest lessons I have learned in life have not come from books or classrooms. They have come from experience. As I reflect on the people whose shoulders I stand on today, I have realized that one of…
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Some Places Become Holy Simply Because We Lived There
We all feel disconnected at times. I never met my maternal or paternal grandparents. They had all died before I was born, so I grew up knowing very little about my family’s story. In the 1990s, my oldest sister, Sue, and I began researching our genealogy. The deeper we dug, the more I discovered that…
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