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what education?
sitting in an overstuffed chair, pontificating about one’s preferred view of reality, suggesting that we are all philosophers, strikes me as an odd way to claim that you know what you are doing, let alone know who you are. yet, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Life
Tagged character, college, compassion, debt, high school, Life, philosophy, student loans
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rescue
young people like to commit suicide by jumping off that big bridge. if you travel to West Virginia, or you plan to travel to West Virginia, and you pick up some brochures…or go to a website…and look….I can almost guarantee, … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged compassion, New river Bridge, New River Gorge, New River Gorge bridge, rescue, suicide, West Virginia
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abandoned, but not forgotten
early in the morning, while dogs barked and children played in the back yard, a deer jumped over the fence and ran off into the nearby worlds, leaving a little fawn alone, to curl up into a fetal position up … Continue reading
the master of the mirror?
are you living a life to touch the hearts of others, to bring compassion to the downtrodden, or are you living like you are looking in the mirror, in love with the image? where has selfless love gone? where is … Continue reading
Posted in Life, love
Tagged compassion, death, eternity, loneliness, love, selfies, selfishness
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flowers dying before their days are done
three people i knew died recently- two younger than me, one a year older. one woman i remember as a teenager, the thin little girl with coal black eyes, a few years behind me in school- vibrant, vivacious, the very picture … Continue reading
Posted in God, Life, love
Tagged compassion, death, God, Jesus, Life, love, passion, purpose, relationships
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Ten Things To Pray For In The Year 2014: # 3 Compassion
without compassion, no one in this world would breathe their next breath. it’s strangely wonderful, this thing we call breathing. it keeps us going, it reminds us we are alive, and it helps take us to new divine appointments. today, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Life
Tagged Christ, Christian, Christianity, compassion, grace, Life, prayer, sin
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On the edge of the parking lot
She propped a leg on the curb and took some serious puffs on a dwindling cigarette, communicating stress. An older man, dressed in suspenders, a heavy blue-plaid flannel shirt, and pants belonging to a long-forgotten era, brought his pipe and … Continue reading
Posted in catholicism, Characters, Christianity, Culture, Dreams/Goals, Life, Men, Morality, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Characters, Christianity, compassion, culture, food, Language, Life, loneliness, lost souls, McDonalds, meaning of life, men, Morality, parking lots, purpose, relationships, restaurants, women
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burning eyes in the alleyway of pain can almost feel the sorrow of pelting rain plastic bags washed up against the broken brick gnarled hand and coat and walking stick grasping a rail to break free from crippleness fallen face … Continue reading