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Here’s a Thought: The Jersey Shore
By Taylor Mason
I wouldn’t know anything about the MTV show “Jersey Shore.” But "the shore," as we call it, is a big part of our lives. ...
Martha's Laugh Lines: "Oh, Yeah?"
By Martha Bolton
I'm a non-confrontational person. It takes me a long time to even realize when someone has been rude or hurtful to me, and even longer to address it.
Here’s a Thought: Christian Scientist Monitor
By Taylor Mason
Separation of church and state: I get it, I’m for it, I’m not even questioning it. But I don’t get the separation of science and church.
Time Out: I So Don’t Scream
By Cara Garretson
Ice cream, that quintessential summer treat loved by all. Except me. It hovers around the bottom of my Top 10 Treats list.
Here’s a Thought: Backtalk
By Taylor Mason
It takes place the middle of July every year, at a non-descript hotel in an obscure suburb of Cincinnati. It is a convention of ventriloquists.
My Husband’s DrawersSeptember 09, 2008
By Janet Ann Collins
As a newlywed I made a point of carefully folding and stacking my husband's clean laundry as I thought a good wife should do. But each week when I opened his dresser drawers to put the clean laundry away I would find everything already inside had been stirred into a messy heap. I'd have to straighten it all out before adding the newly washed items. Finally I confronted him. “Why can't you keep your things neat when I work so hard to get them that way?” He told me he preferred them all mixed together. I didn't understand (and I still don't) but because I loved him, I began to simply dump his clean underwear into the existing pile, and found that by pleasing my husband my own work load had been lightened. Sometimes I make myself submit to God even if what he's doing doesn't make sense to me because I have promised to love and obey him. My own life has been made better as a result. It's only because of my relationship with my husband that I do things according to his standards. And it's only because we are Christians that we need and want to follow God's commandments even if we don't always understand his purpose. I Peter 1:14-15: As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.  |
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