Tag Archives: selflessness

Motherhood Is Forever!

Posted on May 11, 2025 by mitchteemley

To say that motherhood is complicated is like saying “the Sistine Chapel is a nice little drawing.” Motherhood marks the start of (at least) one life, and the profound transformation of another. Lives that in all their complexity will extend … Continue reading →

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More Blessed to Give

Posted on October 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

Note to self: Remember this. And then remember it some more! “For it is more blessed to give than to receive.” ~Acts 20:35 ∴

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Invest Yourself

Posted on June 30, 2024 by mitchteemley
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You Have Not Lived…

Posted on June 23, 2024 by mitchteemley
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Becoming Complete

Posted on May 2, 2024 by mitchteemley

There’s a paradox in Jesus’ teachings: Again and again he tells me that what I want I must give. But I don’t have it to give because I am incomplete. So what must I do? I must let him invade … Continue reading →

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Happiness Is Nowhere

Posted on April 10, 2024 by mitchteemley

Happiness is nowhere. Happiness is now  here. What’s the difference? Only air, which sometimes fills the space for years. We hope that happiness will come, although its presence may be fleeting. They say it lingers long for some, but others … Continue reading →

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Real Fatherhood

Posted on April 8, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week During self-introductions a college student of mine once boasted that he’d fathered 11 children by 11 different women. I normally avoid judgmental statements. Not this time. “Do you support them?” I asked. “Uh, no!” he said … Continue reading →

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When Heroes Kill Monsters

Posted on April 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Akanda Kilicarslan “When heroes kill monsters, they kill something in themselves, as well – and give birth to something new.” ~The Wishing Map φ

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on May 14, 2023 by mitchteemley

I had a real, imperfect, wonderful mother growing up. I’m also inexpressibly blessed to share my life with the marvelous mother of my children, my wife Trudy! “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of … Continue reading →

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Babies Show Us Who We Really Are

Posted on December 5, 2022 by mitchteemley

Thought for the  Week “Making the decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” ~Elizabeth Stone “I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in … Continue reading →

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