Category: Daily Living
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Personal Review Framework – My Version of an Introduction
Self-reflection is an essential ingredient for personal and professional growth. Making the intentional decision to slow down… quiet down, and consider your circumstances, the things you’ve learned, and what and how you want things to be different can reveal more than you imagine. I have a series of questions I use that I found in…
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What’s That Song…
Growing up in Oregon, the Oregon Ducks have been my college team. I can root for others – even some from the Pac-12, but the Ducks are my team. This last week I went to the sold-out Utah v. Oregon game. A late game. A nail-biter. A tad on the chilly side (28 degrees at…
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Hearts with a Mission: Homeless 2 Hopeful Super Hero Run
This weekend I ran in the Hearts with a Mission – Homeless 2 Hopeful Super Hero Run. Their mission is to serve homeless and at-risk youth by providing shelter, educational support, mentoring and transition planning with a faith-based approach. The folks at Quantum supported the event by helping to build the runners kits, prepping my “Captain Quantum”…
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Flattery Is Like Perfume
I was recently remind of a great story by Pastor Alistair Begg. With a bit of help from some great folks at @TruthForLife, I was able to find the story. A great reminder with a great truth. When I was a small boy my father use to take me to a number of events that I didn’t…
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The Real Meaning of Peace
There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of Peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror…
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Remember September 11th
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The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
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Para… what?
I came across this at my office the other day. With a little research, I found that it was posted on anther WordPress site, although theirs is expanded from what I read in the office with some fantastic additions. Thanks to the folks at PA Pundits – International for a good laugh. While they all can…
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During Difficult Times, Remember
Lamentations 3 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23they are new…
be encouraged 