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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. –Anne Frank

A Unitarian Universalist dies, and on the way to the afterlife encounters a sign with two options: “to heaven” or “to a discussion of heaven.” The UU heads right to the discussion of heaven.

Matthew 21:33-46 33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants…

[33] Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: [34] And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to…

Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title (Tyndale 2007). New journal entries will appear in your profile Monday-Saturday for 6 weeks. If you missed any so far, stay subscribed to this feed and you can begin when it starts over. Be sure…

Please pray for work conditions with an emotionally abusive boss. –from Beliefnet member puppylover Add your prayers now

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. –Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish-Jewish philosopher and poet c.1021-1058 Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more–love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. –Henry Drummond

Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake. –Matthew Flickstein, “Swallowing the River Ganges” Copyright Wisdom Publications 2001. Reprinted from “Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations,” edited by Josh Bartok, with permission of Wisdom Publications, 199 Elm St., Somerville MA 02144 U.S.A, www.wisdompubs.org.

The seven years of abundance that the land of Egypt enjoyed came to an end, and the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had foretold. There was famine in all lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread. And when all the land of Egypt felt the hunger, the people…

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