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How a Miracle Happens

posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
A Miracle is Energy In Formation. Anything you hold your attention on over time is energy in formation. We are transformed by what we hold dear to us and fill our heart with the experience of what we desire. This intent to dwell upon what we hold ...

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Two Kinds of Grief

posted over 4 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 0 comments
Over the last 16 years, I have noticed Hospice families deal with the loss of their loved one in a couple of ways. There are those who mourn deeply their loss. And, there are those who grieve with hope. Both will lead you to the same place inside ...

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The Landscape of the Soul

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
Through the years, we accumulate a series of experiences. Our tendency is to evaluate and simply reflect on what we have been through and what we have learned. This inward site into what we can no longer see with our eyes allows us to see through ...

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The Landscape of the Soul

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Through the years, we accumulate a series of experiences. Our tendency is to evaluate and simply reflect on what we have been through and what we have learned. This inward site into what we can no longer see with our eyes allows us to see through ...

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Service to Others Reveals Who we Are!

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Everyone of us have something to offer. Each of us have a gift to share. It is only through the act of service to others do we discover and even uncover our greatest capacities and skills that are given to us by God. These gifts belong to no one -...

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"A Fish Named Ed" (a children's grief story)

posted over 4 years ago, updated 10 minutes later | 0 comments
A Fish Named Ed

Sam Oliver

North Ridgeville, Ohio

Ed is a small fish who was born and raised in Juday Creek. He liked Juday Creek. This small creek in Northern Indiana was his home. He swam every day in this small stream moving from one adventu...

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Staying in the Moment

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Much of our lives is spent on worrying about the future and reflecting on our past. As a result, we have a difficult time staying in the moment. To stay in the present moment requires much concentration. We usually find in rare moments such as the...

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The Journey of a Dying Patient

posted over 4 years ago | 4 comments
Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are tra...

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Memories of Days Gone by...

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
In the days of yester-years

were days of joy and tears,

they sift through the mind

and remind us of life behind.

Shadowing an event in history

filled with laughter or misery

are the times of the heart

of which all take part.

Sam Oliver

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Echoes of the Distant Past

posted over 4 years ago, updated 14 minutes later | 0 comments
Sounds of distant years
form vibrations in my ears.
They bring echoes from life behind
and impress memories in my mind.

Hearts tingle in succession
and flood my body with emotion
at the presence of an event or friend
real or imagined again and a...

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