Tag: faith
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Keeping Savings Accounts vs Paying Off Debt
This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Once I had paid off my monthly bills and the ones due in the next month that were on my Capital One card, I was ready to take a stab at paying off my car,…
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Art as an Act of Faith
Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith. Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next…
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How Does the Movie End?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. Never mind Cold Mountain. The characters in this tale are real and far more riveting than Nicole Kidman or Jude Law. In my family history, there’s a story of a simple farmer, a husband and father who fought in the Civil War. When the war…
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Stars, Reality, and Perspective—and Loving Again
Originally published in Third Degree and Rising, 2007. This is important for reasons I cannot yet fathom, except that I’m looking for what is real. We’re so sure of what reality is. We gaze at the night sky, at what’s not visible in the glare of harsh light, and congratulate ourselves on seeing the reality…
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You Really Can’t Trust Anyone, Can You?
For months, I’ve noticed how many people around me have trust issues, and I’ve also noticed that these trust issues didn’t just pop up overnight. They’ve been there for years, through series of relationships, maybe all the way back to childhood. They’re still there because they’ve never been healed–only torn open and deeper by subsequent…
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Allowing the Universe to Take Care of You
Most days, I’m in a fairly blissful state of knowing I’m being “taken care of” by the Universe. This wasn’t always so obvious in the past and many times, I thought I knew better than the Universe (or God or the Gods or whatever term you feel comfortable using). After all, I wasn’t getting what…
