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Unknown author - NOAA Photo Library   "Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets."-Luke 5:5 Been there! I've done my best. I am sure I've exhausted all the possibilities, expended all the energy, and exercised all the faithfulness possible with no…

Do you remember the lost and found box at your school? Have you ever lost something important to you that you later found? How did you feel? If you rejoiced, you have something in common with the Father. Source Lost and Found is a children's picture book by Oliver Jeffers, published in 2005. It won the Nestlé Smarties…

  I don't look for my morning themes to post in my blog or social media.   I just sort of gravitate toward them as if there is a magnet drawing the little specks of scattered metal dust into a meaningful center of thinking where a message might emerge if there is anyone to hear,…

  We are being invaded daily by an army of memes, invaded, infiltrated, and influenced. I decided that, if I could not beat them, I would join them. I have begun to create regular, if not amateurish, attempts at engaging the culture. But first, what is it and what are they?    Definition of meme 1: an…

What is the meaning of my moments and movement beyond the movement of the moment?

Henk Caspers/Naturalis Biodiversity Center – Natural history museum Naturalis, Leiden. Exhibition Earth.    Here we are today, standing on a rolling ball, trying to maintain our balance yet balanced by an unseen hand.   We are suspended between the ground beneath and the sky above and somehow unimpressed.   We are ever bumping into one…

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