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Good Days...Bad Days With Maureen Pratt
You can be contagious!
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mpratt
Just as surely as we allow our bad days to make for bad moods and thus make for more isolation than relationships, so, too, on our good days, our lifted spirits can be the spark that makes for the ultimate in happy contagion – a contagion of goodwill and humor to all. Far from being…
Lazarus and us
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mpratt
What a powerful story of love and God’s power is the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead! And what a blessing that, in Scripture, we have more than just a paragraph of the account. In John, for example, (Chapter 11), we read of Martha and Mary, to whom we’ve already been introduced, and…
A tip for rising above procrastination
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mpratt
Putting off something important? Waiting for the perfect moment before you take action on a step toward a goal? We all do it, of course. But what separates failures from successes? The ability to throw aside the tendency to procrastinate and, thus, keep on track. I have to admit, I do at times, procrastinate. But…
Oh, that most difficult of questions: How are you?
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mpratt
It’s become a part of our greeting ritual, but it’s also one of the most difficult questions we face. “How are you?” Usually, there’s a perfunctory, “Fine. How are you?” And the answer to that one? “Fine, thanks.” And the conversation moves on. But if you have a chronic illness, you probably have found yourself…
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