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Julie Ainger

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The betrayal of original thought. To forgive is divine.

Ready! Set! Go!Prepare to be enlightened.Enlightened!?Wholly!Hopefully…..True or False?”To err is human, to forgive is divine.”Ain’t no mountain high enough, to keep who or whom from loving you?Multiple Choice:Alway.Your choice.Depends on the Book of Faces?The interest in and of all things Pinter?The connections of the Link-ers on this button pushing “platform”.After all, a platform is intended to lift, Right? Like anyone who lived in the seventies knows. 👠👠👡👡Platform shoes lifted us up to new heights. We began thinking we were all that AND ...

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Aloof and Silence: Notes to Chatterboxes Everywhere!🙂

“Stop talking!””Don’t talk over me!We feel so often, so many minutes, so many hours, so many days of our existence like we are not,Heard.One glorious day.We figure it out.Finally.We first must ask for forgiveness for the countless times and hours we felt compelled to prove ourselvesRight—That we are right. You are wrong? That I am right and you are wrong?Ugh.I am sorry.The problem and problemo is the world moves at a deafening pace. Blink and we miss the important lesson of the day. The minute we took our first breath, He held our hand in fa...

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Love is a battlefield. Worship is warfare. “Que sera, Que sera.”

What lies ahead.It is what it is.What will be, will be.Maybe.Maybe not.There are always risks to playing the God card.More importantly, risks are heaviest when playing WITH the God card.Leaves one very, very,Thirsty.Yikes.Oops.Stay tuned.And.Check twice, three times, the spelling of the name and names before committing to the family namesake. Things could get a bit dicier than expected.Yes.”There is a connection between events—past, present and future—and that this connection exists in the justice of God who controls all.” (Ecc3:15)Phew.Dodg...

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The Brow-Beating Termaganter

Naggers and dominators have one thing in common.They think they do not know how they got in here, here, into the collective arena of other self-afflicted termaganter and terminators. What do they have in common?They like to nag and dominate🤔Not surprisingly, too.One man’s trash, it has been said, is another man’s treasure. Some luxurious and uxorious femme fatales fails to see their own ill-begotten frailties and failures. Their own power becomes the drug they sniff and pour over while they fail to assess the power of their own consciousness...

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Same old same old

“You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”Life comes from the Lord.Generation to generation. (pf)His parents brought Jesus forward and allowed others to prophesy about Jesus.Gossip about my neighbors.No! Not that!Heartfelt fulfillment of expectations of goodness and love.Leader as a man among men.Change. Comes in fits and starts.Amazing.What do we do when we hear about amazement.We can list the ways.Three ways of Jesus life:SalvationLight...

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The secrets of the fog and the mountain.

An atmospheric phenomenon.Raining cats and dogs.Every cloud has a silver lining.Head in the clouds.Snowed under.Under the weather.Cloud Nine.To be a breeze.Come rain or shine.The calm before the storm.Face like thunder. (kil)Atmospheric phenomenon.Concealment of escape.Protection from the enemy.Up, Up and Away until and if and the dissipations render the eyes and senses capable of restored clarity from impaired visibility.In a fog: Confused. Preoccupied. Not paying attention.”Fog envelops the world in a soft silence, where peace and serenity...

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Libation and Liberation

Get it right the first time?In today’s fast paced world, is it even possible to do?Get it right the first time.While believers know a thing or two about the narrow path, it is with prayer that the learning and growing keeps the grounded, grounded.To some. This is a “no way” existence. To others, it is an extended hand of a request or a bequest to a higher power. When the hands fold, the Lord is let in. It is then, we learn how imperfect we are, and how perfect He is.The challenge?Letting be what is. The good. The bad. The ugly. The sad. The ...

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“2,4,6,8 who do we appreciate!?”

“Lean to the left””Lean to the right.””Stand up, sit down””Fight, Fight, Fight.”Yes.Like hell.Cheers📣, Cheers🥂 , and More Cheers 🍻Knocking ‘em back.Knocking ‘em down.Insidious attempts to gain control over another in an attempt, sometimes desperate, to control their every move. Cause them to live a living hell.Who needs to run the track, when the insidiousness of the tracking continues?Used to be, different, 25 years ago. Y2K stuff and all. The best and most brightest of the minds, came together to figure out how to undo what was done. What...

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The Pregnant Pause

One ringy-dingy.Two ringy-dingy.Oh my. Alexander Graham Bell would turn over in his grave if he saw what his invention has become. After all, he was the one who revolutionized the way people communicate.I doubt this is what he had in mind. The power to annihilate in the palm of our own hands with a point, aim and shoot. Or should I say, “click.”On March 7, 1876 Bell developed the first working telephone. He was a Scottish-born person and a Canadian-American inventor who received a US patent for his invention.(wk)His family had all worked on ...

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The fine line. Oooops. “I forgot.”

There exists.A very fine line.Some.May call “it” faint.And as accurate as description as that may be.Faint.Is not for the faint of heart.To be fair.To be really fair.Specifically fair.Minutiae -ally fair.We feel best when we are strong.In our abilities.In our convictions.Out realities.Our strongholds.Yes.Our strongholds.Anyone can “tap”.A shoe.A button.A character.A key.Yet.Cannot.Will not.Step out of the comfort zone of all they think they hold near and dear.Leaving everyone else.EVERYONE else.Holding the bag.Their bag.Their bag AND their b...

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Light shines. Darkness no match🙂

God Never Stops!Welcome!Limited possibilities.Shepherd struggles in the face and faces of hardship.Magi-inspired themes of life and the face and faces of a long journey.Ordinary people. Run-of-the-mill problems.Extraordinary people. Seemingly impossible obstacles to overcome.God Never Stops.(pf)This is a good thing to know at the start of a day, at the start of the New Year. As has been noted from time to time, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.☺️Who better and what actions are better than His? I think you may be hard pressed to fi...

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Don’t call me. I’ll call you.

Routine.Run of the Mill.Don’t call me.I’ll call you.Don’t ring me.I’ll ring you.Routine.Cut-and-dried.Wait five minutes.Wait thirty minutes.Wait one hour.Conflict resolution is similar to the New Year’s ones we endeavor to make with the whispering knowing in the back of our ear knowingly chuckling and saying, “I give it three weeks.”Will power is powerful when there is a will and a way. Otherwise it is just another “plan.” An un-executed plan.Inevitably, someone or something will come along that is“better.”The want, the need, fades in time. ...

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Eye Candy

Like. Curb appeal, it may get you in the door.Like. Beauty, it may get you in the door.Like. Twinkling stars and colorful lights, it may get you in the door.Once the excitement of the moment has passed.What gets us on the straight and narrow path?Today. Of all days is a, the and sometimes, a new beginning of resolutions and promises, coaxes and constant displays of our ongoing weaknesses.Wet January.Dry January.Low sugar.No sugar.Cut sugar in half.Don’t eat meat.Do eat meat.Dont’ eat chips.Do eat chips. 🖋️What gets us to the end of the line?...

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The more things change………..

The more things change, the more they stay the same.Yes. And. No.Progress has a way of testing our mettle. Suffice to say, intentions and motivations are, at times, one and the same, or two of the same. Or not.When the going gets tough, the tough get going. What this may mean is different things at different times. One man’s pulled tooth is another man’s treasure. Hey. I did not make the rules. Adhering to them is both a test of discipline and fortitude. Whatever happens in the middle or the meantime is anybody’s guess.Which brings us to the...

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One Old Soul.

Today is the day!Say “Yes” to Yeshua!He is here!He is the center, the up, the down, the periphery.He not only takes the mess out of our lives, He is the Messiah—friend of all and enemy to none. He abhors the violence He endured for our sins when they publicly crucified Him in the court of public opinion and the disagreements of the courts behind closed doors.He is born. Again. Today is His birthday.🎂Who we exchange time and tethers and tokens with today is because of the blessings he bestowed upon us. Frankly, because at this time every year...

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