Last Friday of the month, time again for good news! I’m referring to We are the World Blogfest, a bloghop promoting positive news stories that show compassion and the resilience of the human spirit. Sharing these stories increases our awareness of hope in our increasingly dark world. By emphasizing empathy, we […]
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The new year is underway. My focus here on Healing Writer is to encourage and equip you in your journey in maintaining a vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ. And if you don’t have that, maybe something you read here will stir you to want it. I enjoy praying. It’s one […]
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Thanks to our connected world, everyone knows the destruction that Hurricane Irma brought to my state of Florida. The images are heartbreaking but we are a resilient people who will recover. My family is blessed. We are safe. We did not evacuate, but shuttered in and hunkered down with all […]
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Today, for WE ARE THE WORLD BLOGFEST, I bring a positive story of random kindness in the midst of my grief and emotional upheaval. My Dad died in February, 2016 at age 87 while under hospice care. The preceding 60 days were intense: watching his suffering while juggling caregiving, replete with the […]
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Today’s guest post and photo collage comes from Janine Watson, who writes about life aboard a sailboat where she lives with husband, Ian and daughter, Tammy. Let’s listen … Driving down US1 there is a large billboard screaming “Let Go and Go Sailing” accompanied by an appropriate sailboat in full sail on an azure sea […]
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I’m feeling reflective today so I’m presenting a direct question we all need to answer. How am I living my life? For who? There are two ways to live our lives: the more self-absorbed way where you’re trying to store up all you can for yourself -OR- the -seeking the […]
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Found this video of a lamb rescue in Scotland. Watch it and then come back to finish this article, Okay? Click here https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbbcthesocial%2Fvideos%2F853729654737459%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Seeing Kate tenderly wrap that lamb in towels made me think of the times my Jesus rescued me from danger. She braved freezing water to help a helpless […]
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Today I’m featuring a 105-year-old poem illustrating the timelessness of the written word. Composed by William Herbert Carruth in 1920, it explores the concept of the divine through various natural and human experiences. It reflects the scientific and philosophical debates of its time and contrasts the theory of evolution with […]
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