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Blessings
I find it interesting how the human mind works. No sooner are we confronted with a situation than we move towards the worst case scenario. That primal trigger to our fight or flight response initiates. Then we are unable to see any of the good in our lives. When we are in this state, we suffer from a decrease of blood flow to the brain and an increase of oxygen to the larger muscle groups in our…
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Meditation on Today
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Today is mine. If it is sunny, it is mine. If it snows, it is mine. If it is cloudy and rains, it is mine. If a baby is born, it is mine. If a friend dies, it is mine.
If peace reigns in the world, this day is mine. If war is declared, this day is mine. No matter what happens in my life or in the world; this day is mine. I can choose it or lose it.
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Changing Your World
Back in 1931, a writer by the name of Emmet Fox wrote an essay entitled “Tail Wags Dog”. In it he states a couple of facts that, when you think about them, are startling. “The Truth is that your outer conditions – your environment – are the expression of your mentality and nothing more. They are not the cause. They are the effect.”
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In other words, your…
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Good Health
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These are times that haven;t been experienced in this world since 1918. The Spanish Flu was a pandemic that infected 500 million people from 1918 to 1920 causing up to 50 million deaths by some counts. Our pandemic now has been compared to that.
Sure we probably have better medical facilities, equipment and drugs to deal with these things. But we still…
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My wife Verna and I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in southern Poland this year. This was the notorious Nazi death camp in WW2. At its height in 1944, it killed 12,000 people a day, most of wh…
The Role of Authority
The Role of Authority
My wife Verna and I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in southern Poland this year. This was the notorious Nazi death camp in WW2. At its height in 1944, it killed 12,000 people a day, most of whom were Jews deported from Hungary. There were also political prisoners, Gypsies, resistance fighters and others that didn’t fit in with the “master plan”.
Less than 10% of the 4,000 or so SS personnel…
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The Idea Machine
The ideas that often come to mind are absurd. But some do come that are quite good, practical and if followed up on, could earn some decent income.
Why don’t we act on them? Because they are not written down. They end up vaporizing back into the ether for someone else to catch.
Next time, write it down and see what happens!!
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The Price of Freedom
Yesterday, my wife and I went through a museum that kept the memories of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain. From the close of WW2 to 1989, the Warsaw Pact nations and NATO saw themselves as adversaries.
Numerous factors came together to bring about the fall of the USSR and the buffer states it controlled. The underlying factor is the longing for freedom and truth.
People get tired of the lies…
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What do we do with the fear?
What do we do with the fear?
I’m pretty active on Facebook. The other day I shared the following post from the Clergy Coaching Network.
Clergy Coaching Network
There seems to be a lot of that going around of late, particularly after what happened in Christchurch. I have gotten more comments on this one post back than on any other that I have shared.
Let us start the conversation here that begins to move the fear back…
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Good news and Bad News
Good news and Bad News
The Good News
I ran across a report by the Chief Statistician of Stats Canada at the turn of the New Year. He listed The Top 10 for 2018. I was surprised by number 9.
The country’s Gross Domestic Product, which is the total goods and services produced by a country, grew by an annual rate of 2% last year. Canadians have a combined net worth of $11.4 trillion. This works out to about…
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The Value Of Encouragement
The Value Of Encouragement
Back in the mid to late 1980’s, an incident happened that changed my life forever. I was tending an information booth in a mall that my Toastmaster Club had there. We were trying to raise the profile of our club within the community.
it was about 11:30 in the morning and my friend had just gone off for lunch. A fellow approached the booth wearing glasses and had big, bushy eyebrows. He said…
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Where is the Adventure?
Where is the Adventure?
I so often hear about boredom. This is a fast paced world we live in. But we still have, at least, twice the leisure time of those growing up in the 40’s. Technology has shrunk the world to a very small orb. Air travel is cheaper than it has ever been. We can almost “virtually” visit every corner of our globe from our smart phone.
But does that really get us the same degree of excitement.…
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Time's Up
Time’s Up
Have you ever thought about when your time is up?
It’s a question many avoid in this day and age. Life is so full and good in the western world. We don’t like to consider the possibility of it ending. But it will. Hank Williams wrote about it a long ago.
“No matter how much I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”
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AIDA
When I got out of college, I started work in a finance house. There I learned a simple decision making formula that I have used time and again and not just in my professional life. The acronym AIDA stands for Approach, Information, Decision and Action.
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The approachto a decision is important. Try to look at the decision from all angles. Attempt to weigh…
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Happy New Year
New Years Eve is always a time of reflection for me as I’m sure it is for many others. It is a time to reflect on what I could have done better and to set new goals for the coming 365.25 days (The .25 is for the leap year. That way I don’t have to acknowledge it every four years).
Most of us look at the New Year as a clean slate that has yet to be written upon. The only problem will we be…
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Nowhere To Go But Up!
Nowhere To Go But Up!
Last month I got to take a couple of grandkids and my dog on a hike into the wilderness at Jasper. It’s a hike I completed some 20 years ago with my children and my dad. It is 10 km long and rises 700 meters to a place called Sulphur Ridge behind Miette Hot Springs. It was quite an arduous climb for a man of my delicate constitution. The dog slept for 2 days after we got back. What a feeling…
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Why continue?
Sometimes you really wonder if it is worth it. I’m talking about everything you may be involved in. It may be a club, a marriage, your faith, a recovery program, a friendship, or your job. I could probably go on ad nauseum. How can you keep from just throwing in the towel and walking away?
When faced with those feelings, I force myself to think about why I had once valued these things or people…
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