Values

2100) When I taught high school, I was amazed at how many of my students would be given cars on their 16th birthday. They would go and pick out a car or truck and their parents signed on the dotted line.   What was interesting to me was the illustration that value is often determined
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In the End

2099) I have a friend, “Helen” who knew someone who was looking to move into a better home and with excitement, showed Helen a place she had found. This person walked through the rooms with Helen, pointing out things she liked.   Weeks down the road, this person found out they could not secure a
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Follow the Leader

2098) One of my favorite books I read with my young scholars is Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong. It’s a book which traces the unbelievable journey of Sir Earnest Shackleton and his crew, who successfully survived almost 2 years in the frozen Antarctic waters.   With a crew of 27
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An Orchard of Fruit

2097) When I lived in Florida, we had several fruit trees in our yard. When the time was right, I’d take the pole with the metal basket on top and use the “claws” of the basket to pick it. There’s nothing like fresh fruit.   Fruit was on my mind as I walked with my
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Fruit

2096) I love oranges, but because I live in a region of the country that does not produce them, it’s often hard to get good ones.   How can you tell if an orange is good? You can look at the tree and can tell a little about the fruit’s health, but this rarely tells
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Gifts Examined

2095) There are times when I listen to music, see someone who is successful in an area I will never be and more, I sit back, wishing I could do those things.   I’ll then turn the focus within me and think, what I do isn’t that great compared… You get the idea.   What
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Little is Important

2094) We get so busy in life that it’s easy to overlook the small things people do that make a huge difference.   Perhaps it’s simply asking someone how their day is going and then waiting for an answer.   Maybe it’s picking up something in the grocery aisle that has fallen off the shelf.
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Beauty in Pain

2093) In my 60 years, I’ve learned there is a beauty that is beyond any other thing on this earth than when it shows up in pain.   There was the man sitting on the ground with his arms wrapped around his dog, crying tears of love, because he had to take him in to
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Internalize

2092) I’ve recently heard something that was helpful and it is to think of your life like a recipe for a cake. There are some ingredients you would eat separately.   It might be sugar or a drop of vanilla in a hot drink. But there are other ingredients which you probably wouldn’t eat separately,
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Will

2091) Getting to know who God is is something we will always need to do in this life.   Just trying to wrap my head around God being omniscient, omnipotent, and so much more is mind-boggling, and yet, God asks us to do specific things even though we cannot fully understand God’s reasons for what
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