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Spiritual Fruitfulness: Stop Hiding

“Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;” John Keats October is the “season of mists ...
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Spiritual Fruitfulness: Get Your Hands Dirty

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’  and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling I know a ...
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Spiritual Fruitfulness: Pruning for Health

Spiritual Fruitfulness: Pruning for Health

We reap what we sow. Choose what you nourish carefully.      Anonymous Agriculture is a business. And with any business, there ...
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Spiritual Fruitfulness: Two Things Necessary

Spiritual Fruitfulness: Two Things Necessary

And don’t allow yourselves to be weary or disheartened in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful ...
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Hospice Lessons-Her Hands

Hospice Lessons-Her Hands

“These old hands have toiled and labored Worked their fingers to the bone These old hands have held more beauty ...
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Praying for a Broken Heart

Praying for a Broken Heart

This good Friday afternoon, during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds me in a reflective mood.  What is so good about Good ...
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Prayer in Times of Peril and Pandemics

Prayer in Times of Peril and Pandemics

Last October, I began working with Aseracare Hospice.  My job title is Spiritual Care Coordinator and the job description is ...
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Organizing Your Calendar Fearlessly

5 Steps to Organizing Your Calendar

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — John Pierpont ...
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Spacious Places - An Evening Walk

Spacious Places – An Evening Walk

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free Willian Wordsworth It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; The holy time ...
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