We Can Change The World! Right?

Funny thing the way life works in our lives. As a fairly obsessive, compulsive person, I am trying to become less focused, less driven, and what this does it seems, is create more focus, better focus. It comes to me. Messages of Hope. I don’t even go looking for them. Here’s one from an hour ago:

After we nourish our souls, let’s give due diligence to our contribution to society – our J.O.B., which is all I talk about at the…..

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Christmas Means Nothing

Carrying a camera every single day without fail has it’s advantages…

Christmas means nothing without Easter.

You get this right? You’ve thought about this, right?

Yet we act as if Christmas is the most significant holiday ever created.

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Rebirth

Carter, 1999-2010, neck deep in Caladiums…

Officially, tomorrow is the first day of Spring. Here in Orlando, right next to Walt Disney World, it’s felt like Spring since January.

Even as I write this, birds are chirping, trees in bloom, the warm Florida sunshine baking the ground for the rebirth of caladiums, black-eyed susans, blanket flowers (State Flower), periwinkles and a host of other perennials.

The first caladium broke through the ground March 7 – this is the sign I teach Chapin to look for. What’s your first sign of Spring?

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Lent Began Yesterday

Lent brought out the paparazzi yesterday. Mostly because of the Cub Scout banquet…

Lent, beginning yesterday. The next 40 days are an historically symbolic way to prepare for and appreciate – what ought to begin with every day our eyes open from sleep.

It sure would if we were dying.

But alas, we drift through so many years, it could almost go unnoticed.

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Jesus’ Mid Life Celebration?

Did Jesus have a midlife crisis, or a midlife celebration? Back then, 33 was a decent age.

Remember, jeff noel defines midlife crisis as the moment when you finally realize you’ve arrived – where you worked your whole life to get to – and looking around, exclaim, “This isn’t what I wanted!

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