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The Sea Journey
2023-12-05The man cocked his rifle and directed it at my chest. I was just about to pull out my gun when I felt a sharp pain in my torso. I was trying to see wh...
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A Teacher's Story
2023-12-05There is a story many years ago of an elementary teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very fir...
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Away in a Manger
2023-12-05One afternoon about a week before Christmas, my family of four piled into our minivan to run an errand, and this question came from a small voice in t...
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Does Love Exist
2023-12-05Most of us long for relationships in which we are loved and accepted just the way we are. Our hearts' desire is to give and receive love in relati...
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To Beth's First-Grade Teacher
2023-12-05I didn't know the man in front of me that morning. But I did notice that we both walked a little straighter, a little more proudly, as our daughte...
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I Still Choose "Mom"
2023-12-05I watched through blurred vision as my husband, Chuck, walked away with his ex-wife.The heaviness in all our hearts was almost unbearable. Turning bac...
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The Important Things in Life
2023-12-05Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or t...
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Words from A Loving Father
2023-12-05IN THE DOORWAY of my home, I looked closely at the face of my 23-year-old son, Daniel, his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye. In a few hou...
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Today I Saw a Butterfly
2023-12-05Today I saw a butterfly,as it floated in the air;Its wings were spread in splendor,Unaware that I was there.It was such a thing of beauty,It was a sig...
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Hold Your Head up High
2023-12-05I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid... until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to...