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Grief Echoes

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I listened to Krista Tippett interviewing Pauline Boss this week. Ms. Boss is a writer and therapist who established a new field of research on grieving when she coined the phrase “ambiguous loss.” She realized that there are many, many types of loss that lack the...

4 Ways to Recognize a Metaphor

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How do you recognize a metaphor?  Here are four ways: A metaphor is a noun, such as sun, hand, light, journey, rock. A metaphor has multiple meanings and points to something more conceptual, for example: When I say, Jesus is the rock, I don’t mean literally that He is...

Pastor’s Prayer for 10 July 2016

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Have mercy on me, O God, according  to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my  transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my  sin.      For I know my transgressions, and  my sin is ever before me. Against you,...
Lab Girl

Lab Girl

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Lab Girl by Hope Jahren It is difficult to know how to categorize the extraordinary book Lab Girl (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) by Hope Jahren. It is perhaps best to call it a memoir because it certainly reveals facets of the life of author and scientist, Hope Jahren, from...

PTS

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Earthquakes and Resilience This article is about earthquake preparedness, but it has some great lines on survival as well. Like this: “Resilience, it seems, isn’t just about what happens after a crisis: It’s about what happens in the months, and years, before it....