Small choices matter. They help us. And they can hurt us. I remind myself of this a lot. Because in my lifetime, I’ve been down a lot of slippery slopes I never even realized I had started sliding down until I was near the bottom. The addict doesn’t wake up one morning with the goal of being an addict. It’s one drink….
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“You are who you hang with.” These were the wise words my grandpa said to my mom, and then my mom said to me. Over and over and over. “You are who you hang with.” I know. I know. I get it. Only I didn’t. Those words didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I’m my own person and…
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I can’t believe school is about to start. After this, I only have one more summer with my daughter before her senior year. Did I take advantage of this summer? Do they know God loves them? I need to get them involved in more. They should have gone to camp this year……… And on and on and on it went….
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Friends, I want to tell you a story. A couple of months ago, as I was walking out of the middle school auditorium, lost in conversation with a friend, I felt something grab hold of my wrist. I looked down and noticed my bracelet was gone. This bracelet wasn’t fancy. It wasn’t worth much. But it was a Christmas gift…
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It isn’t always easy to be vulnerable and to share the hard parts of life. It isn’t always easy to share those things we wish we hadn’t done, or the things that have been done to us that we wish weren’t a part of our story. It isn’t always easy to admit our wrongs and our shortcomings and our missteps. …
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