Posted in Education, Fear, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, MONEY, cancer, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, communication, compassion, courage, depression, donate, emotions, environment, family, fathers, finances, grandchildren, grandparents, health, help, hospital, hospitals, inspiration, kids, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mother, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, pharmacist, physician, relationships, responsibility, sadness, spiritual, support, teens, trauma, unhappiness on Jun 29th, 2010
Childhood cancer patients need comforting & this non-profit organization Friends Like Us are fundraising to help donate chemo bears to children affected by cancer.
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Posted in Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, Opportunities, Time, attitude, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, compassion, donate, elderly, emergency, emotions, encouragement, environment, family, finances, health, help, holidays, home, hospital, hospitals, hunger, inspiration, joy, kids, leadership, learning, legacy, library, life, love, meals, medical, mental and physical health, mentoring, ministry, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, service, stress, support, surgery, talent, talents, volunteering on Jun 10th, 2010
The Renucci Hospitality House in Grand Rapids Michigan provides temporary housing to families who have loved ones in the Spectrum Hospital. Volunteers are needed.
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Posted in Faith, Fear, Impact, Uncategorized, church, comfort, control, courage, emotions, encouragement, expectations, failure, help, inspiration, life, loneliness, loss, love, mental and physical health, miracles, observations, pain and misery, prayer, relationships, religion, self doubt, sickness, spiritual, storms, stress on May 12th, 2010
Life throws challenges our way, how do we find faith or encouragement to go on and trust God when we don’t like where we are or feel fearful?
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Faith, Frustration, abortion, abuse, accountability, addiction, anger, authorities, awareness, bullying, children, church, comfort, commitment, communication, compassion, control, controversy, culture, custody fight, custody fight, diet, disappointments, divorce, emotions, expectations, family, health, pregnancy, spiritual on Mar 27th, 2010
This past week I’ve been made aware of a few instances of what I consider typical situations of alienating parental rights or authority. I began thinking of all of the different ways in which American society subtly and not so subtly allows this to happen and I realized that it is not isolated instances but rather [...]
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Posted in Fear, Impact, Toxic, Uncategorized, abandonment, abuse, anger, attitude, awareness, cancer, comfort, communication, compassion, depression, disappointments, disaster, disease, divorce, emotions, encouragement, friendship, funeral, giving, grief, health, help, hopes, illness, inspiration, leadership, life, loneliness, loss, love, loyalty, ministry, observations, opinion, pain and misery, relationships, sensitivity, support, trauma, unhappiness, well-being on Oct 30th, 2009
Life can throw some difficult things at people…sometimes words are not enough. When that happens, an action needs to take place to offer encouragement & hope.
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Impact, animals, awareness, cancer, charitable organizations, children, comfort, commitment, compassion, disease, elderly, emotions, encouragement, finances, friendship, health, illness, inspiration, kids, life, loneliness, love, mental and physical health, observations, of connections, pets, relationships, responsibility, service, sickness, special needs, stress, support, well-being on Oct 27th, 2009
Pet ownership can improve the quality of life for the elderly, disabled, or those struggling with a chronic illness or disease. Pets can teach responsibility and improve a person’s health.
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Posted in Christmas, Fear, Patriotism, Twitter, Twitter, armed forces, attitude, charitable organizations, comfort, commitment, communication, compassion, danger, emotions, encouragement, fathers, giving, leadership, life, loneliness, loss, loyalty, military, mom, mother, news, observations, of connections, pain and misery, parenting, power, prayer, prayer, sadness, service, support, trauma on Oct 27th, 2009
Military men & women serving overseas need cards of support & appreciation as the holidays near while they serve the United States away from friends and family.
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Posted in Business, Faith, Heart, Honor, Impact, Uncategorized, accountability, addiction, addictions, attitude, awareness, children, comfort, compassion, culture, depression, depression, disappointments, elderly, emotions, encouragement, environment, expectations, failure, finances, health, illness, job, life, loss, love, medicine, mental and physical health, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, personal development, purpose, relationships, religion, respect, responsibility, stress, unhappiness, values, well-being, work on Sep 28th, 2009
We all make decisions in life that affect others. Personal and professional integrity is both given and received. Do we present our integrity in equal measure to the level of integrity that we expect to receive?
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Posted in Impact, Threats, animals, authorities, awareness, baby, children, comfort, communication, danger, disaster, disease, elderly, emergency, family, government, health, help, ideas, illness, law enforcement, medicine, mental and physical health, military, news, observations, organizations for special needs, parenting, pets, power, responsibility, safety, schools, service, special needs, stress, television, trauma, utility companies, violence, water shortage, weather, well-being on Sep 23rd, 2009
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month; there are things you can do to prepare for an emergency with your family’s survival in mind. Are you ready?
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Posted in Blogging, Fear, Hate Crimes, Impact, Patriotism, Remembering, anger, attitude, awareness, comfort, communication, compassion, control, controversy, culture, danger, death, disaster, emotions, future, grief, history, horror, life, loss, mental and physical health, military, murder, news, observations, pain and misery, power, relationships, religion, respect, sadness, safety, sensitivity, service, sickness, trauma, values, violence on Sep 11th, 2009
In life we all have moments that are frozen in time in our memories; 911 is one of those moments. This post is written about observing how we process it & heal.
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