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We can rewind but cannot change until we learn the lessons.

We can rewind but cannot change until we learn the lessons.

by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 5 comments

Part of me wished I could rewind and take back what I said to Keith on Friday night after happy hour. “I’m done with your criticism,” I said screamed and side-ways sliced the air with my hand. I’d mismanaged the dogs again, and they’d taken off running. Before Keith...
From shouts of Hosanna to shouts of blame—why the shift?

From shouts of Hosanna to shouts of blame—why the shift?

by Carole Duff | Mar 25, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 0 comments

They heaped blame upon His head. “Crucify him,” the crowd screamed. And so, He became the scapegoat; Jesus took the blame for us. But just days before the crowd outside Jerusalem had spread cloaks and branches on the road and shouted, “Hosanna!” Why the sudden shift?...
Grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home

Grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home

by Carole Duff | Jan 29, 2024 | Faith | 4 comments

How far we have come from Friday ten days ago with snow on the deck and our inside happy hour to this past week’s outside at the Bistro table. A fifty-degree Fahrenheit shift, now back to more seasonal temperatures.  All grace, and tis grace that takes us far. Far...
Boomer opinion, Gen Me opinion, all generation truth

Boomer opinion, Gen Me opinion, all generation truth

by Carole Duff | Sep 25, 2023 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 7 comments

Here’s a blast from the past story about my personal opinion versus his professional opinion, both generation opinion biased. My boomer generation opinion It was 1991, and I was carpooling two bunheads to after-school ballet class. “Hey Jessica, did the self-esteem...
Beautiful people don’t just happen

Beautiful people don’t just happen

by Carole Duff | Jun 27, 2022 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 8 comments

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
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