Webster doesn’t usually make for easy reading, but the definition of joy pretty well wraps it up! As a noun, joy is “excitement or pleasurable …
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Money and Marriage
“What a day!” Joshua and MaryEllen both would have agreed with this statement, except they would have added more adjectives such as fantastic, marvelous, wonderful, …
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Few gatherings are as meaningful and as memorable as family reunions. As families grow and the individual members follow their own paths, family reunions serve …
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I tried and failed at scrapbooking. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it and not that I didn’t buy all the supplies (yikes!), but I’m …
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I used to be someone important. Formerly, I was a teacher educating a hundred kids each week. I loved my work. I loved the mentoring, …
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Just because children typically start school or kindergarten at five or six years of age, and first grade at six or seven, doesn’t mean that …
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Death sometimes occurs abruptly, surprising unprepared relatives and loved ones. Then there’s the question of organ donation. Often families are asked to make this life-saving …
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it,” observed Helen Keller. Many people have experienced the deep …
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Edward sat gazing blankly out the window of his small, drab room in the care facility of his children’s choice. Breakfast had been less than …
Read More »Pregnancy and Miscarriage
My husband and I were so excited when we saw two pink lines instead of one. What a surprise. What a joy! We were going …
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