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Profiles in Attitude: Effective Parenting Begins Here- Guest Post By James L. Casale

  If you think parenting is a struggle, and mostly an uphill one, you are correct. However, you may need an attitude adjustment. There’s a reason that Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking sold five million copies. He was onto something so basic that all of us can identify with it: attitude not only matters; it’s the building block for the experiences that follow. Without it, parents have no starting point for their…

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A Lesson of Love

65 YEARS AGO TODAY WAS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING AMAZING Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad My parent’s relationship had its ups and downs just as any marriage does. And the fact that they had children living at home for 32 of their first 33 years of marriage makes it even more remarkable. But somehow they found a way to make it work even in the most difficult of times. For many years work, raising children…

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Where Do You Fit Into The Puzzle?

  No person is perfect. As much as each of us would like to believe that we are, we are not. And making peace with this fact of life is the first step to making progress in reaching your goals in life. Granted some of us might have greater challenges which have left not just small chips or nicks on our hearts instead, there are gaping holes. But all of these flaws serve two purposes.…

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Suffocation

The definition of suffocation, according to Google’s dictionary feature, is the state or process of dying from being deprived of air or unable to breathe. But what is very surprising to most people is that the intense urge you feel to breath when you are holding your breath, or when you are underwater, is not because your body is starving for oxygen. The instinct to breath is actually caused by carbon dioxide receptors in your…

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Left or Right

I seem to have entered another time in my life when “why” is the thought of most days. And unlike in my youth when I really expected an answer, I think as an adult, when I hear myself utter this question, I know that it is time to reflect on the issue and search for my own answers. The short version of the current need for contemplation is a set of challenges for myself and…

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Choose To Create Treasured Memories for Yourself, You Deserve Them

  It’s always difficult to face the reality of a parent’s illness. Most children grow and thrive within the warm, protective sphere known as a loving parents care. And even when the relationship has been difficult or dysfunctional, there still seems to be a connection of more than simply genetics. This emotional connection to a parent might simply be a single, thin shred of hope that someday this complicated, or almost nonexistent relationship, will somehow…

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The Storming of Thunder Ridge 2018 Guest Post by Christian Schick

In a hospital waiting room in Dayton, Ohio, Mahler Symphony No.2 “Resurrection” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHsFIv8VA7w&t=225s) plays for a comatose patient. I had chosen this piece of music for my brother, Ryan. It was his favorite Mahler symphony. The theme of the symphony is resurrection. Like Martha from the John 11 Bible passage, my family had the faith to believe in the future resurrection of my brother’s soul but we’re wrestling with the faith that his seemingly lifeless…

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Be the Lighthouse

  Everyone experiences trying times in his or her life. And on many of those occasions, human nature takes over, and we mentally utter what might be the oldest question in the history of mankind, “Why?” Sometimes, it is said in a truly puzzled tone and other times it is snarled in a voice demanding an instant answer, and an apology, from the universe. But in all of these cases, we feel that our predicament…

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