what’s your story?

photo credit here “i had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.” G.K. Chesterton   through the hard chapters and the ones that explode off the page with gratitude, remind yourself that He who writes the story has already secured its...

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pep talk for the hard road

“your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing,   and heaven shall make amends for all.”   –Thomas Brooks   [photo credit...

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tiny predators

forget forest fires or tornadic winds. the ash tree’s greatest threat? a tiny beetle   “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that  the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you...

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