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Tag Archives: death
Easter Traditions Around the World
Easter traditions vary from the sacred to the profane (mostly the former), from the “Oh, how beautiful!” to the “Say what?” Here on this Easter weekend are some images and descriptions (after the pictures below) of Easter traditions around the … Continue reading
Posted in Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged death, Easter, Good Friday, holiday, hope, Jesus, life, resurrection
18 Comments
I’m Not Ready to Die!
Source: socialwiki.ru The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Trapped in a cave by the vengeful pixie Princess … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged adventure, black widows, danger, death, fantasy, fear, teenage girl, young adult
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Hanging On to Life
Photo by Daniel Jensen The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Gina had awakened in a cave to find … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged C.S. Lewis, danger, death, fantasy, fear, Narnia, spiders, young adult
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The Biggest Event of Your Life
We plan our lives around big events, birthdays, marriages, moves to new places. So why do we ignore the biggest event of all? Death. Shouldn’t that, more than anything else, affect the way we live? And if there’s even the … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged afterlife, death, eternity, George MacDonald, meaning of life, planning, purpose
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The Death of a Friend
Image by Yuri_B My Real Memoir It was a forced friendship. True, Craig was an only child like me, but that was the only thing we had in common. I wasn’t averse to taking risks, but Craig was the most … Continue reading
The Lost Girl
She was the callow Catholic school senior who cried the night her boyfriend French-kissed her, fearing she’d become pregnant. Five months later, now a bracingly pretty college freshman, she was wooed and plundered by her theatre professor. It was give … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir
Tagged break-up, death, God, love, new age, pantheism, romance, spirituality
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Do Drowned Leaves Dream?
Do drowned leaves dream of the lives they once lived in the sky while living leaves ponder the fate that awaits by and by?
Goodbye, Marilyn
My Real Memoir It was August 4, 1962, and sweltering like it is now. I was only a kid, so you wouldn’t think it would have affected me much. But when I heard Marilyn Monroe had died while my buddy … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Movies
Tagged 1960s, childhood, death, love, My Real Memoir, pre-teen, sex, Some Like it Hot
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Bringing Grandpa Home
My Real Memoir Somewhere along the line Grandma and Grandpa McLaughlin had moved from Los Angeles to the foot of California’s San Gabriel Mountains. Dating back to the early 1900s, the town of Upland was full of half-timbered craftsman homes … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, change, childhood, death, grandparents, life, meaning of life, My Real Memoir
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Another Choice
Originally posted on lpb quest – the twilight dance:
“The big problem with death is not only that it puts an end to life, but it also echoes that our existence is a kind of failure: all that we do,…
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged 1 Corinthians 15:55, blogging, death, eternity, Featured Blogger, purpose, resurrection
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