The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H. Humphrey
Today I took my friend, Mike, to get a PET scan. This seems to be the last of the innumerable litany of medical tests he has endured to figure out what is going on with his heart.
Every test reveals nothing, or at best, another question.
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“Hope is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul…” Emily Dickinson
Recently, my daughter posted a sign that she had recently seen. It was in the dressing room of a department store. The sign shows a picture of a very sad, very pathetic dog, and the caption reads: “Shoplifters will be forced to watch 24 hours of Sarah McLachlan’s ASPCA commercials”. Christine’s response: “I’d rather go to jail.” And I agreed. These commercials send me running for the remote. I cannot bear the thought of animals suffering.
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"Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day our Lord is coming." (Matthew 24: 42)
The first week of Advent is HOPE. And, I must admit, this is a hard one to "do". Like, how do you "act" hopeful?
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