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Thinking of Miracles

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I’m thinking about miracles today…it’s a great day for Miracles.  Miracles are all around us but we often pass them off as coincidence or miss them all together because we can’t understand how they work…or that they even exist.  I’m thankful for the miracle of life, for the miracle of my family and my pets.  I’m thankful for the miracle of rain today after the long scorching summer… the heat seemed endless. I love watching the rain…it’s so peaceful. I’m thankful for the miracle of health…that I can enjoy life in a healthy body.  I’m thankful for another day. I’m thankful for the miracle of second chances. And I’m watching for more miracles.  You have to believe in miracles.

What miracles are all around you today?

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Happy Father’s Day to All Father’s

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There is a man I call Dad. He is not my biological Dad, but you’d never know it. He married my Mother, bought us a home and made us a family.  He’s always been there for me.  He was there when I graduated from school, when I got married, when my children were born, when I needed him, through birthdays and holidays, and when life collapsed.

He’s still here. 

Today we celebrated a wonderful Father’s Day with Grandpa Allan…as he likes being called.   

Thank you for everything

Biology is the least of what makes a person a parent

Happy Father’s Day to all Fathers…Step Fathers and Adoptive Fathers

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Thank You…

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I wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who reads my blog and my twitter posts, and who likes and comments on them.  I just now noticed that most of the comments (on both sites) have gone to spam and I’m sorry I didn’t notice them sooner.

I’m not a computer wiz and time is a big issue, however, you are all in my heart.  I don’t want to be just another blog with quotes,  although they are wonderful, but instead try to post ideas and thoughts beyond just quotes.  I sincerely hope that through my posts and my book that the world is a more positive place one person at a time.  If you like what I do please share my sites…

PS.  I love animals and use them frequently in my posts pictures.  I hope you love them as well

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The Power of Unconditional Love

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There is no power on earth like unconditional love.  If you offer it to your child, you are 90% of the way home.  To know you always can come back home is going to make for a better human being”  Warren Buffett

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Just Love Them

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Before becoming a Mother, I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children.  Now I have seven children and only one theory.  Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.  Kate Scamperi

 

 

Inspirational Stories

A Must Read Story

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While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Continue reading A Must Read Story →

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Gratitude

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This man’s home was destroyed by the tornado in Alabama. In the picture he is grateful after finding his dog alive. Devastation makes us realize what’s important…

Gratitude: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what you have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow” Melody Beattie

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Love…

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“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own” 

Robert Heinlein

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Something Different

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Today I heard the news that a friend of mine took his own life because of immense stress he had endured for many years.  None of this was necessary.

My friend went through a divorce many years ago and has two teenage children from that marriage.  Subsequent to the divorce, his wife decided to do the unthinkable….to turn his children against him.  For many years she badly disparaged him to his children and told many untruths.  Children are innocent and they only believe what they hear.  Children have such a limited life experience that they are sometimes not able to properly discern between truth and fantasy.  The truth is…and not because he was my friend…that he was a deeply devoted, loving father who loved his children more than any other people on earth.  He was always there for them as any loving parent would be.  He also did not act in like to his ex wife’s vengeance.  Continue reading Something Different →