But, that's not what I meant...

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But, that's not what I meant...

We pray and hope and work for things that we want. We receive blessings and bad days and more blessings. Sometimes--once in a blue moon, as far as I've ever experienced--those blessings arrive *precisely* how I imagined they would. Most of the time those blessings are quite different from what I pictured. Sometimes that's okay. Sometimes I utter, "That's not what I meant," and I have to dig a little deeper to find the gratitude I know I should be feeling. 

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When HELPING becomes HINDERING

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When HELPING becomes HINDERING

It would be really great--and it would make this counselor heart so very happy--if we could have a universal, required-for-adulthood training on boundaries.

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It's Not Me, It's You... I mean...

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It's Not Me, It's You... I mean...

You know who shouldn't have to learn how to listen? Grown-ups. We should be in control of ourselves enough to listen, respect, and engage with one another in an appropriate manner. But since we're not a perfect people, that is not always the case.

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The season of perpetual HOPE

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The season of perpetual HOPE

I think we're not meant to be people who give up. We're not meant to lie down and let the darkness swallow us. I think we're meant to rise up, to fight back, to give it everything we've got even when it's harder than it's ever been.

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