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A number of years ago, the world was introduced to a remarkable fish named “Dory”. She lived in the open sea and helped a friend of hers find his son “Nemo”. Remember them? Dory was a special needs fish with a very bad case of short-term memory loss. Like many special needs people or fish,…

Recently, I saw this on FB and it hit home hard. “Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught…

In this day and age of “wokeness”, it is so easy to offend or be offended by something someone says or does but I feel that we need to know the “rest of the story” before we allow this to happen. Case in point, I had brought a neighbor with me to Church one Sunday.…

In one of my favorite children’s books, The Velveteen Rabbit, a small stuffed rabbit toy who is much beloved by his child is curious about becoming “real”. He asks the wise, old, rocking horse to tell him how it happens. The reply is, “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen…

Have you ever dropped a pebble into calm water and watched the ripple effect? It is an amazing thing to watch as that one action creates circle upon circle of ripple around the spot the pebble entered the water. The circles closest to the entry point are small, each circle growing bigger as it gets…