Hocus Pocus Focus

Hocus Pocus Focus

Three lady slippers in the top third of photo One morning when Aiden was coming back from a walk with his dog, he saw a lady slipper. Most of us know it is an endangered wildflower and not to pick or transplant it. After taking care of his dog, he went back into the woods to take a picture of it. He found it and thought it was the only one which had normally been the case for him. He began to…

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Hope in a Robin’s Egg

“Hope”is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tunewithout the words, and never stops – at all. —Emily DickinsonOne day as Aiden arrived at his house, he was surprised to find that there was a bird’s nest that had been built and wedged between the outside light and the side of the house by the back door. It had been there more than a week. That was why the sound of the…

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An Angel by Easter

Photo by Roberto Nickson on Pexels.com In last week’s Palm Sunday post, I introduced you all to Aiden who was resurrecting his life from the breakup of a long-term relationship by first surrendering control to God. Fast forwarding to the present day to where Aiden has been a chaplain at a large corporate hospital. The social worker in the emergency department had paged him to support the husband…

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Was Always a Dream, Part II

Photo by Meruyert Gonullu on Pexels.com ‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But…

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Solar Eclipse and Thoughts Part I

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Control or Surrender

Hollingworth Lake Shore by David Dixon is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 “To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee It was as though he had woken up one day and his world had completely changed. Aiden was single after a sixteen-year relationship that had ended. She had taken their dog with her and left his cat, at least, but the apartment was emptied of all her things. This…

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