Healing for the Soul

Give you a couple of minutes for reading this really reflexive real life stories.

Mirtis Diaz

“Miss Diaz!” Abby said excitedly. “My mom is coming in two weeks!” I was so moved by her anxious little voice and beautiful smile as she told me the good news, which was something she had been dreaming about for quite some time....
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Lora Incardona

Growing up here in the United States, we are raised with the expectations of getting married and having children. It seems to be the normal thing to do and to do the opposite is sort of odd and against the natural flow of things. So, being the “all–American girl”, I, too, followed ...
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In her I see God's Love By Rubel Shelly

A number of years ago, on a beautiful warm spring day, my wife was in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on supper. Her day had been long and tiring. Our daughter burst into the hot, percolating kitchen. It wasn’t her first burst! She had repeatedly slipped into the kitchen just to be a...
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El Día de la Madre

En verdad, el amor es más fuerte que la muerte porque proviene de Dios, y gracias a Dios y a Su sacrificio, tenemos esperanza en la vida eterna. Y entonces no habrá más adioses, porque como dice el viejo himno, no habrá “lágrimas en el cielo.”...
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Mother's Day

Yes, Mother’s Day comes and goes. But the memories linger and remain...
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John Wooden

John Wooden (1910–2010) built an incredible college basketball dynasty at UCLA in the 1960s and 1970s. True to one of his many aphorisms that “failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” he was known for brutal practice sessions....
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Your Half–Full Glass

It dawned on me last Wednesday that I finally understand a string of words that were spoken before I was born but which I have heard all my life. They are the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt from his first inaugural address. He gave the speech on March 4, 1933. It is the one with the famous line that...
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