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SERMON: Prisoners of Fear |
Many are held as prisoners because of fear! Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes us serviceable-and, most of all, fear puts hopelessness at the heart of life, while faith rejoices in hope and love.
Everyone knows what its like to be afraid. Fear is very much a part of our lives. Maybe you're afraid of losing your job, or your health, or losing your finances. Maybe you're afraid of not being accepted by others. Or maybe you're just afraid of growing old.
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EDITORIAL: Wealth And Isolation
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A key component to the imbalance that permeates our world is the isolationism that grips so many of our lives. In today's world that is over-run with impersonal machines taking the place of human faces, computers access to just about anything and everything, and the lack of incentive to learn about other cultures due to an ethnocentrism revolving around Western culture, people are becoming more and more isolated.
Many older people refuse to use a computer or learn to use e-mail for the personal touch of a handwritten letter is too much to lose.
Others refuse to use ATM machines out of a desire to see and speak to another human being as it might be the only contact they have with a smile all day.
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OPINION: Finding Focus
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In a world laden with imbalances we continue to blindly forge ahead gaining ground externally, through technology, media, fashion, various degrees, high paying jobs, anything to promote the false perfection that we all try so hard to find and emulate.
In a race for superficial control over all that we work for everyday, our world is suffering from frighteningly chaotic conditions that we contribute to daily.
In an age of astounding achievements, technological advancements, nuclear weapons, and medical discoveries our environment...
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GOOD NEWS: A Second Wind for Seniors.
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Millions of seniors confined to nursing homes struggle to keep depression at bay. 80% have no visitors. Imagine a program that asked residents, "What would make you happy?" and then granted those wishes. That is the mission of Second Wind Dreams --to inspire nursing homes across the world to create Dream Weavers out of staff members.
Many times a new dress, a radio, a trip to a fishing hole or the ball park is all that is needed to create a connection to their past that gives a feeling of security, peace and happiness. Some dreams cost less than $25.00 but generate truly life-altering experiences.
Mae Bailey, 61, blind and disabled by the ravages of diabetes, wished to relive the excitement she experienced as a youngster riding the seven cyclones at Six Flags Amusement Park.
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nonFICTION: Barnacles and Bedlam, Part 32
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Aboard the Chamberlain, the sun was now well above the horizon. The colors in the eastern heavens faded, and so did my reverie.
One evening, attracted to the music of my Mendelssohn recording, Dr. Chasen and Wilford Wood joined me in my quarters.
I welcomed the chance to become better acquainted with Wood, who had been personally recruited by Commander Ellsberg because of his long career as a deep sea diver. But like the doctor, he was reserved and not verbal and almost impossible for a non-medical man like myself to fathom.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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My 10 year old son just had a birthday party at our local bowling place. He invited 9 of his closest male friends at a cost of $15.00 per child plus our son, of course. One of the boy guests had a friend of his sleep over and his mother brought that boy's friend and two siblings of one of the other invited boys came. Plus, three parents stayed.
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