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What is Good?

How do you know when something is good?
We say in the church all the time that “God is Good”.  What does that mean?
It doesn’t matter whether if we are talking about God, a work of art, a movie, a restaurant or the newest fashion design – how do we decide that something is “good”?  How [...]

Failure

What do you think when you hear the phrase:  “You are a failure!”
More often than not we are afraid of failure, we don’t want to fail.  We may think that if we are going to do something and we are not going to succeed, why waste our time?
But we do fail….we are not perfect — [...]

Healing and Health

Does your feelings about yourself have any influence on the way your body feels?
Don’t get me wrong,  I am not saying that modern medicine doesn’t have a place in our life.  However,  I do believe that our attitude has an impact on the way we feel mentally and physically.
Here in CNY we are getting close [...]

What Kind of Role Model are You?

When I was a youth director, I had a poster on my wall that said “You are already a role model, the question is what kind are you?”
Like it or not we are all role models, from the person living on the street to the top professional athlete.  By role model I mean that we [...]

Positive Thinking

So this year has not gone as I have planned so far.  There have been many set backs and there have been many times  that I have wanted to give up and quit.  But I am still here and as I move forward I want to spend the rest of the year thinking positive and [...]

New Year, Shmoo Year

2010 has not been all it is cracked up to be.
We celebrated the new year in Vermont hanging out with my parents.  It was a nice quiet evening- the boy was the only one who really made it to midnight.   Congrats to him!
Then we came home to CNY and found lots and lots of [...]

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