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Fantasizing Too Much? Plan a Positive Escape
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I’ve been feeling badly that I spend so much of my day fantasizing … about a place not covered in dirty laundry, and where sex is spontaneous (not scheduled), and backrubs and pillow talk come before and after. At this dreamland, I have no responsibilities, no little people to take care of. All noises are…
I Hoped the Ocean Would Help You See
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Beyond Blue
I loved this story by Beyond Blue reader Melzoom on the combox of my post, “Dear God: Come All Who are Weary”: My second suicide attempt was not immediately severe enough to put me in the hospital. My husband came home to find me bleeding all over the bathroom, but with my first aid training…
Dear God: The Fern and the Bamboo
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Beyond Blue
Dear God, In today’s gospel, we read about the parable of the sower (Matthew 13: 1-9), which, ironically, was the reading that Eric and I chose for our wedding (it’s not all that romantic … but read in terms of a relationship, and you’ll see why I picked it): A sower went out to sow.…
The Mustard Seed of Faith Is Enough
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Beyond Blue
The following meditation is from “Song of the Sparrow,” poems and meditations by Murray Bodo, O.F.M. God hears me. We want to believe it with all our hearts, and so we pray mightily and storm heaven with our cries. And the silence terrifies us. We turn inward to the God who dwells within and there…
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