Author: Higher Up IDEALS
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
I’m fat. I’m skinny. I’m pretty. I’m ugly. I’m in style. I’m out of style. No one is looking at me. Everyone is looking at me. I’m special. I’m just like everyone else. I’m popular. I’m unpopular. And the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s been said that the average human brain processes…
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More Addiction
One of my daughter’s first words was “more”. Anytime she wants anything that she doesn’t know the word for–especially food–she screams, “more, more, more.” On one side I think it’s cute, but on the other hand, I’m thinking, “Oh no. It’s started.” Since time began human beings have been fascinated with the idea of more. …
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Some People Need Professional Help
I hope that after reading this post I will be able to save some of you a big chunk of time in your life. The time I am talking about comes from the time we spend trying to help people that just won’t take it. I think that’s what Jesus was talking about when he was…
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Life Is Who You Are, Not What You Do
How often have you heard the question, “So what do you do?”, when meeting people for the first time? How often do you ask that question yourself? And how would you feel if your answer was, “Oh, nothing right now. I was laid off.”? The fact is you probably would never say that. Even if you…
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Make Friends With The Unknown
Recently I read the book, “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. As you can imagine by the title, the book is satirical in nature. However, it does have a lot of depth. But I’ll get to that later. It tells the story of Jesus’ (Joshua) missing years from the Bible and tells about his training to…
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There Is No Loss
Today on our way home from CT we decided to stop into the Mohegan Sun Casino. Now this might sound weird, but whenever I go to a casino I take it as an opportunity to consciously watch my thoughts as they relate to money and to learn life lessons. Oh money you deceiver, you maker…
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Living Without A Plan
When I sat down to write this blog the intention was to write about women who love trees. (It was a suggestion from my co-worker Tyler Brown. You have to know him.) Anyway I had it all planned out when all of a sudden I decided to drop that plan. In this moment women who…
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Forward
How do you move forward when backward is all you have? I’ve been thinking about that a lot since my Dad died. As days go by it becomes more evident that I can no longer look forward to seeing him. I can’t look forward to him seeing my daughter grow. I can’t look forward to…
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Are You Ready For A Miracle?
In the past couple of months we were forced out of our apartment, my father passed away, I hit a telephone pole when racing on a scooter, and today my car had cardiac arrest. And I won’t even get into the aftermath of my dad’s last will and testament. It puts the soap opera “All…
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Rise up!
Pure Life My daughter wakes up crying every morning. She’s screaming, “UP!” because she wants to get out of her crib and start interacting with the world. Her parents on the other hand want her to sleep just a little longer. Because she’s new to the world and everything is fresh she is…
The Roofless Church 