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Mia's First Soccer Game

Mis is my grandaughter.  Since she was little, she had always been athletic, so when she was five years old, her parents thought of having her play soccer.  The parents do the coaching for the kids. Dring her first game, she scored the only two points for the game - one...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

The One Message For Our Day

If I could only broadcast one message to the world that has come from my faith, it would be that the gospel of Jesus Christ--His Church and kingdom-- was lost to the world through the dark ages, known as the Apostasy, and that through His grace and tender mercies, it has...
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Kathleen Arancio

If you could only teach a single lesson you've learned from your faith what would it be?

The premier lesson I've learned from my faith is God really does know what is best for us and doesn't give us anything we can't handle. Of course it never feels that way when we are going through difficult experiences. But with time, God's compassion becomes apparent. We just need to keep our...
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Susan Darbro

My Sojourn in the Zoo

Am I the only one who's ever inhabited animal bodies?

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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Hendrika Folkers' Conversion Story

Hendrika Folkers' Conversion Story
Hendrika Folkers, my maternal grandmother, grew up in Groningen, Netherlands.  Her family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church (Hervormde Kerk) while she was in her youth, but her maternal grandmother and her mother recognized that the original church organized by Jesus Christ when he was upon the earth had been...
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Jennifer Cornine

Describe an event where your faith has been questioned and how the experience strengthened or changed your spiritual perspective.

The date was January 26, 1997. We gathered at the hospital ICU, my family and I.  It was Superbowl Sunday, but that couldn't be farther from my mind.  My Momma had been in the hospital for a few weeks.  We were at the end.  Her breast cancer had spread to her...
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Diane J. Adams

What one thing would I leave that I learned from my faith?

I have tested and tried what I was taught and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is TRUE!  We are all children of a Father In Heaven who is a person full of love and compassion beyond our comprehension. He wants us all to learn of...
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Jennifer Cornine

One lesson to share with the world

It is hard to dial your wisdom down to one lesson at first blush.  One thing that I am sure of is that our beliefs evolve through each decade and life experience that we are blessed to share in our brief time here on Earth.  Upon further thought, the one thing...
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Joyce Stone

My Early Childhood Lesson

    My father was a stern disclipiniarian.  Yet he was a loving, caring man who took exceptional care of his family.  In contrast to what is happening today in reference to the question Whose fault is it? there was never any doubt in our family.  It was usually our own.  He...
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Joyce Stone

If I could broadcast one thing to the world

    There is a message that we all need.  It can shape our lives.  It can affect everything we do and all of our interactions with people.  It can prevent depression, lonliness, sadness and heartache.     I t can combat evil and provide strength to everyone who accepts it. THE MESSAGE...
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deanne groves

faith and spirituality

  If you could broadcast a single lesson you've learned from your faith what would it be?  The most memorable lesson that comes to my mind is hearing my favorite pastor challenge his congregation:  Don't be afraid to Get out of the Boat.  The setting for this instruction was Jesus walking...
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Dick Pellek

Honor A Veteran On Memorial Day

Honor A Veteran On Memorial Day
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Remembering our Patriots   Memorial Day weekend, 2011 and time to carry on a recent custom of thanking veterans who served the United States, especially those who fought in bloody combat. All one has to do is...
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Dick Pellek

Underutilized Scientific Equipment in Third World Countries

Underutilized Scientific Equipment in Third World Countries
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Things Ain’t Always What You Think   What would you think if you walked into a well equipped chemical laboratory during the middle of a work day and didn’t see white smocked chemists and technicians...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Religion: Rejection vs Acceptance

Describe an event where your faith has been questioned and how the experience strengthened or changed your spiritual perspective. On October 15, 1963, while serving in The Netherlands as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I wrote an entry in my journal that illustrates rejection as...
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deanne groves

Faith

My mother brought me up going to church any time the doors were open.  So we were at church at least three times weekly.  My father never participated until way later in life, after all the children had left home.  My mother had a faith she never questioned.  She read and...
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Dick Pellek

Getting Along in Polyglot

Getting Along in Polyglot
On the road….again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek São Jorge dos Orgãos, Cape Verde People, places, and events are sloshing around in his memory in such an unconsolidated way that it would be fair to describe the state of affairs as a mental soup, with...
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Millard Don Carriker

The Great Bermuda Short Scandal (Second in a Series)

The Great Bermuda Short Scandal In today’s society a person would have to appear in public almost as uncovered as a new-born babe to get arrested on a charge of indecent exposure.  That was not the case as the 20 th Century rolled past the halfway mark on its road to...
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Dick Pellek

Nightmares and Daydreams of Indonesia

Nightmares and Daydreams of Indonesia
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Nightmares and Daydreams of Indonesia   Of all the many memories of foreign lands that are among the very deepest in the conscious and sub-conscious thoughts of the Footloose Forester, more of them are about Indonesia than...
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Jeri J Steele

Joe Land - Picture during the time he was sheriff

Postcard dated November 24, 1911, during time Joe Land was Sheriff of Smith County, Texas. The top back of the postcard is incorrectly labeled Gaston & Joe Land.  I believe the second person is "Wig" Smith, his deputy. Were they at the Sheriff's Association meeting in Houston? Still trying to locate...
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Susan Darbro

Do Miracles Happen?

Although I have some "whale of a story" stories, I'm tempted to limit my comments on this subject - most of my miracle stories are intensely personal. I can't help but comment on the topic, however, as I have strong views on the subject. Many years ago I came across a...
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