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Tag Archives: fate
Free Your Free Will!
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” ~William Shakespeare Thought for the Week Are we free? Or is the ability to choose an illusion? And why is our understanding of this subject so dim? We … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged destiny, fate, free will, morality, philosophy, psychology, theology, thought for the week
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47 Years Ago Today
By the time the war ended, 58,220 American soldiers had died in Vietnam. And, in a strange irony, 50,000 of the people they’d gone to save had been evacuated to the United States. It was the largest airlift in U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged 1970s, destiny, eternity, fate, history, immigrants, refugees, Veterans, Vietnam War
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A Sudden Reversal of Fate
Photo by Corey Rich 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. Zack was about to die! How had … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged boy, falling, fantasy, fate, fear, survival, young adult
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Big Choices Are Hard
Thought for the Week “Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, The Wishing Map
Tagged choices, eternity, fate, life, Matthew 7:13-14, purpose, thought for the week
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Caption This Photo
Feel free to be snarky (hard to resist), or to wax metaphorical like some of these writers have: “When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isn’t fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged courage, fate, fear, God, life, trust, unknown
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The Wishing Map 133
Originally posted on Mitch Teemley:
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Twenty-Four: The Long Night (continued) Previously: With the Questing Beast vanquished, Gina was finally able to sleep. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ She was in a lovely semi-coma…
Posted in Books, For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged destiny, fantasy, fate, purpose, young adult
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Choices
“You can’t control your fate by refusing to make choices! I didn’t discover my destiny until I faced my circumstances. I had to make hard, awful choices, choices I didn’t want to make. I made terrible mistakes, but that was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Quips and Quotes, Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged Aunt Aloysia, choices, destiny, fate, hard, The Wishing Map
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The Wishing Map 122
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Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Twenty-Four: The Long Night Previously: Gina learned of B’frona’s fate since she’d left Rennou. What fate awaited her, she wondered. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ It was presumed…
Posted in Books, Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged danger, enemy, fantasy, fate, prophecy, quest
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Dandelions are Human Weeds
It’s that time of year. Even amid hushes of snow, the dandelions appear. How like us they are, arranging themselves about their clocks, terrified of being uprooted. Created to live for a season and then die beyond themselves, instead they push their … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry
Tagged dandelions, fate, human, immortality, life, purpose, spring, weeds
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You
Swedish diplomat, economist and author Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961. “It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us.”
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged Dag Hammarskjold, fate, God, heart, love, purpose
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