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The “Child” in One Hundred Years

August 13, 2023
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Last year one of my sons texted me a photo and said, “And then THIS happened.” He was showing me the results of his red heeler “knocking up” a friend’s aging beagle. I saw on my phone screen nine nursing pups with eyes yet closed. About a month later, this was the scene… This morning I went to search a certain biblical story on YouTube, but became distracted with the first link that showed/was suggested in my customized feed (the...

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The Blessing

August 13, 2023
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Personal Writings, Writings

In the past year or more I have gravitated toward many thoughts about blessing and cursing, and seem to listen for these elements in many Psalms, Old Testament stories and New Testament references these days. As I look about me I increasingly see a world that is slipping not only into stupidity and madness but into seemingly newly-invented forms of deep evil as well as the resurrection of age-old forms of evil practices of all sorts. I don’t know that...

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Unbelievable?

August 8, 2023
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics

Secret Chinese-run CA lab hid COVID, other infectious … The Sacramento Beehttps://www.sacbee.com › california › article277949468 4 days ago — A secret Chinese-run laboratory in Reedley, California was illegally hiding infectious diseases, including COVID-19, malaria and other … What was inside the illegal medical lab found in California? … FOX59.comhttps://fox59.com › news › national-world › what-was… 5 days ago — (KSEE/KGPE) – Court documents detail the horrors and dangerous nature of an illegal lab found in Reedley, California, exposed several months ago … Illegal lab in California carried bioengineered mice … USA Todayhttps://www.usatoday.com › nation › 2023/07/31...

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Spontaneous Decisions to Clean Things Up

August 7, 2023
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Life Stories, Writings

As I brushed my teeth tonight I glanced around my bathroom and for some reason, my eyes and thoughts turned to a bar of soap that I’ve had for nearly twenty-five years. It’s a beautiful bar of soap. It still smells like soap. It somehow moved and followed me from Webb Road to Alexandria Drive to Nottingham Road to Modaus Road to County Road 460 and now resides in my bathroom on Davidburg Road. Many years ago, my young family...

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The Reconstruction of Joseph (According to “Queer Theory”)

August 7, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

This morning I had reason to ruminate on the Joseph of Genesis. There was something in my mind that made me want to listen to a particular part of his story. The story of Joseph interpreting the cup bearer’s (and the baker’s) dream is what I wanted a refresher on, but I picked up right before that part and continued listening for awhile, up past the part where the brothers and then Jacob went into Egypt, and on past when...

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Shame

August 5, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events

The summer of 1981 was a time I came face-to-face with my own proclivity to do a variety of shameful and youthful things. One day in August, I had an experience where I believe the Holy Spirit overcame me with a deep sense of conviction of my sinfulness and need for Jesus, and I consider that moment forward the beginning of my desire for a new life, in God. As I went on into adulthood, there are some times when...

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Safe and Unsafe People

August 2, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

About twenty years ago I was in a conversation with a friend and she said that as humans, we tend to subconsciously (or consciously) categorize every other human as either safe or unsafe. Of course this was in the context of relational issues, but I think it has other layers that can involve physical safety and spiritual safety. And this conversation about what it means to be a safe person occurred long before the current linguistical shifts and movements that...

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Speak Softly, and Say the Word “DEMONIC”

July 31, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Understandably, there’s a lot of debate in the Church these days about how to respond to gender (and other) ideology, and all that these ideologies entail. I find that many whose lives have actually been impacted by it (as opposed to those yet unscathed who are trying to find their own navigation and even guide others through the difficult waters) fall into three basic categories: 1. The response from the place of fear (those attempting to prevent or mitigate any...

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To Teach is To Touch a Life Forever (A Conversation Thanks to John and Harmon)

July 30, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Both a grandfather and a great-grandfather of mine were pretty much contemporary colleagues of sorts– school teachers in the early 1900’s. My father’s maternal grandfather, Harmon Grimm, taught school school near Trego, Maryland. I do not know what ages or any details, but a family member said he also had a side hustle selling cut timber. My mother’s father, John Curry Linger, was a school teacher in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He also managed a family homestead and it is reported...

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A Bride’s “Flowers of Joy”

July 29, 2023
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

(This piece is X-posted from my studio newsletter blog as it also contains an amount of personal contemplations…) __________ The saving of a bride’s bouquet is nothing new and there are a number of ways to do that, depending on desired result, the type of flowers and especially, cost. When I was first married on June 1, 1985 in a very simple wedding (like many young couples then and now, we didn’t have two pennies to rub together, so-to-speak) someone...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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