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My Mother Was Also Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Parts of Psalm 139, NIV: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb… for I am fearfully and wonderfully made… My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them…” This is a pictorial companion piece...

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Is My Life Supposed to be This Way?

July 10, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Yesterday I spent a large part of my day on and off painting on two different paintings in my studio – one a commissioned wedding event painting, and the other, a landscape started in Buckannon, West Virginia a week ago today. On any given day, I have a lot in my mind. I’m just that kind of person, I suppose… Lots of contemplations of all sorts – often both comedy and tragedy, filled with both humor and deep empathic thoughts,...

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“We Are Our Grandmother’s Prayers; We are Mothers of Courage” (Sweet Honey in the Rock)

June 20, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics

I have been working on the scanning and printing and adding to my blogged life stories the baby albums of each of my children. (I had hoped) to finish it by Mother’s Day and intend to gift each of them a copy of these scanned/printed albums plus some more prints of their About Baby Books with milestones and all kinds of written babyhood details and remembrances – but it proved to be quite more of a daunting task than I...

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I Arm-Wrestled my Daddy and I Won!

June 19, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

Among my young memories are arm-wrestling matches with my father. I’d say somewhere between first and fifth grade we would occasionally arm-wrestle at the kitchen table. Whether I’m accurately remembering the exact nature of these playful activities I will never know. Like many old recollections, they seem to be in glimpses in our mind’s eye and since this was not a one-time arm-wrestling contest, the number of variations in my mind remains! I can recall him teaching me the rules...

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Speech From a Gushing Artery – Part III (Job 3)

June 13, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Any reasonable reading of the first part of the book of Job would identify his adversary as Satan himself, who seeks God’s permission to wage War against Job. I’m really not sure how there would be any other take-aways from the first two chapters. In terms of battle strategy, it appears to me that Satan’s first tactic was one of blitzkrieg. I must wonder how long of a time period existed between the initial and dramatic, shock-and-awe assaults and the...

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White Lace and Promises – June 1, 1985

June 1, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I suppose it takes a lot of nerve to make a blog post like this. But, it just seems fitting, for some reason. My marriage to James Edward Elfers took place on June 1, 1985 at Newark Christian Fellowship in Kemblesville, PA. Officiants were Reverend Gerald (Neil) Uniacke and Reverend Bruce Latshaw. This was the first wedding Neil had performed, as I recall, and was the second wedding on the property in the church’s partially finished Barn. In fact, members...

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A Crisis of the FAKE

May 12, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet“ William Shakespeare That is, if it wasn’t a fake rose. Does calling something that is fake by another name make it any less fake? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you noticed something but you are afraid to point it out? Kind of like the situation of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Plot “Two swindlers arrive at the capital city of an emperor who spends lavishly on clothing...

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My Frozen Father

May 11, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Some stories are birthed in pitch black darkness. They are the writings of a lunatic under a full moon that reflects no light because the sun has vanquished. They are the recollections of unexpressed howling during a full eclipse of the sun at midnight. To some, they are inconsequential retrospective ramblings of an aging woman who would do well to stop thinking back on that long ago May day… To others, this is a story of intrigue and resilience. Looking...

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The “Total Impact” of the Thing Itself…

April 27, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

A friend encouraged me with this video I share here at the end of this piece, this morning…so good…passing it along. I watched it and was reminded, in what she shared, of one of my favorite quotations: “One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many bad spots in our best times, many good ones in our worst. One never gets the...

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Masterpiece of Malevolence Part I (Job 1:1-22)

April 21, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I really seem to be stuck in the book of Job, for some reason. Things in my life – especially in my own internal world – seem to be taking me back to this story for analysis. It is unwieldy – some of the thoughts and observations that cross my mind. I feel like expressing back what I am taking in…and I am not certain how to do this! At least for now, since I gave a general and lengthy...

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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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