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Real Reality
The phenomenon of “Reality” TV is the big thing on the networks these days. From “Survivor” to “Big Brother” to “The Amazing Race”, we are fascinated with watching these people successfully move from challenge to challenge. We watch them, compare ourselves to them, watch the scheming and pushing and clawing to the top. There’s nothing…
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Regrets and failure
Today, I attended a funeral. It was for one of my wife’s friends, who had suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. As I listened to the minister’s message, I was struck by one of things suffered by those who lose someone close to them. A death rarely occurs in an expected fashion, where there is time…
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Joy!
Joy is not a term we use much these days. At Christmas time the songs say “Joy to the World”, but we’ve heard it so much during our lives that it just becomes part of the background of the season. One of the definitions I can find on the Net for “joy” is “To rejoice;…