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Tag Archives: perception
Life Ain’t Fair
How we feel about the winner always colors our perception of the outcome, whether it’s the World Series, the NCAA championship, or a presidential election. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, College, education, Higher Education, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged Brown vs. Board, Brown vs. Board of Education, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, fairness, Mark Flickinger, mural, perception, state capitol, State Capitol mural project, Topeka, winning
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Today’s Needs
We probably won’t end world hunger or cure cancer but we can do a few small things that show others we care about them… Continue reading
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged attending, caring, encouragement, helping others, kindness, perception, selfless, sharing
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Blessing in the Messing
Can you find the blessing in your mess? Sometimes, the very thing we don’t want is the best thing that could happen… Continue reading
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged attitude, blessings, disappointment, good and bad, misfortune, perception, philosophy
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Gifts of Perception
There’s an art to giving… and to receiving. Sometimes the generation gap makes both arts more challenging. Here’s something I learned from my parents and my children… Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged Browns Grove KY, Christmas, Christmas gifts, Coldwater KY, empathy, generation gap, gifts, giving, insight, Kentucky, perception
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A More Challenging Pattern
In this one, I am reminded that we may, from time to time, find ourselves in the sublime pursuit of some goal or another that seems to elude, evade and otherwise overcome our finest efforts. We should not forget that in some of those situations in which it seems that what we are trying to do is quite impossible, there may be a simple explanation. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Remodeling/Construction, Spiritual Contemplation, Work
Tagged determination, faith, perception, persistence, remodeling, removing wallpaper, stripping wallpaper, wisdom
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Deception
There is, in the belly of the beggar and the glutton, a constant longing and hunger. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged appetite, deception, fulfillment, hunger, perception, release, spirituality, wisdom, worldliness
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Tree Snow
Even when the wonders of this life come and pass in the fog of our seeing, it is our perceiving that gives them glory.
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Posted in Nature, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged beauty, frost, nature, perception, snow
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Reflections by Doc Arnett 