Marilyn T. Parker's Blog, page 2
April 20, 2021
The Value of a One Minute Life
I t's a true blessing to have Paula Scott as a guest blogger today. Paula and I were instant friends when we met at a writer's retreat at Lake Tahoe a few years ago. She's a best-selling author and the mother of an amazing bunch (and I do mean a bunch) of kids. Paula's family [...]
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March 19, 2021
Is There Really Such a Thing as “Our Own Truth?”
E ver been a witness in a trial? I have. Once. You used to put your hand on the Bible and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I don’t know if that terminology is used universally anymore. I think it would be difficult now because “the truth” is [...]
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February 24, 2021
How to Keep From Expecting the Worst
How to Keep From Expecting the Worst H ow do you wake up in the morning? With joy and peace? With dread and discouragement, expecting the worst to happen? Or is it something in between? Are you even aware of how you feel in the morning? Deep down inside? I wasn’t. Not really. Some time [...]
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January 15, 2021
The Kind of Inventory We Shouldn’t Take in 2021
H ave you ever noticed how when someone you love does something or says something that hurts your feelings, your mind immediately goes to the last time they did or said that same thing?—and the time before that?—and the time before all the times they’ve done or said it? The new year is a time [...]
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