We pray and meditate to seek vision and clarity about the truth. Our vision is made clear when we indulge in only the truth, especially about ourselves and our relationship with God. Where the lack of truth only obfuscates. Truth is the foundation upon which a solid future is built. A foundation built on lies…

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Meditation is the time when accomplishing nothing accomplishes the most. When one mediates and prays, he or she enters a realm known only by you and God. No one can enter, and no one can understand what goes on except God and you. The person communicating with God isn’t the same person you present to…

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Forgiveness and mercy are what heal, restore, and define us, that they actually are the fragrance that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.” — Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway. Anne Lamott’s image of a rose leaving a scent on the heel that has crushed it, has stuck with me ever since I read it. It…

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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do. — Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous Suzy and I have a saying when we see something we want but can’t afford or hear of some fabulous trip someone…

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The more dirt you throw, the more ground you lose. — Tennessee Wisdom. (thanks to Davis Liles) Modern political wisdom, and I’ve heard it said by some of the best, is that negative campaigning is the most effective. I’m sure I’m wrong, but I don’t buy it. What’s really at play is that it is…

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