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40 Days of Healing – Day Five – After The Tears

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40 Days of Healing – Day Five – After The Tears Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlying our hard hearts.   Charles Dickens After the cleansing rain, the Earth is refreshed.  Mother is calm, quiet, and still.  The air is fresh, clean, and clear.  It is time for peaceful personal reflection.  It is a time of a new beginning. After the cleansing tears, the body is refreshed.  The soul is calm, quiet, and still.  Thoughts are clear.  Focus is keen.  It is time for peaceful personal reflection.  Hope is reborn.  It is a moment of a new beginning. Dreams like a Phoenix’s ashes come back to life.  Goals are set or reset.  Plans are made.  Life is going somewhere again.  The path to healing’s growth and development always involves pain and inconvenience.  To get there, we must first admit and accept that our current miserable cond...
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Time to Take a Walk

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  All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche There is something about taking a walk that clears the mind and centers the soul.   Things that weighed emotionally very heavy before walking seemed lighter after the walk. When I am emotionally beat down, I put on the walking shoes.   I get my CD player and my friend Charlotte Hillman’s CD – Hallelujah, Let’s Praise His Name (Recorded Live at the Covenant Life Family Worship Center in Oklahoma City ) and away I go. I like to walk into the Arizona Sunrise listening to Charlotte ’s mother do the Lord’s Prayer. I watch the sun come up over the eastern mountains looking over into the Phoenix Valley .   When her Amen is finished I am off.   The music is pumping and I am stepping. The first half mile is always the toughest.   It’s the one that laughs at you.   It reminds you are of how messed up you are physically and emotionally and no amount of walking can change that. ...
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