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    The Music of Rest

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    Dekker sleeps on organ pedals, rest

    Where is the rest in your life? Not the vacation kind. Not sleep, exactly. But rest as a rhythm. As part of the music of your days.

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    WHERE GRACE HIDES

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    An old lady wears a colorful red and yellow striped sobrero, perhaps to celebrate aging. Grace

    What does grace look like when our bodies betray us? It’s an uncomfortable question—one we often avoid. We speak of grace as if it always arrives clean and…

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  • Aging,  Life Challenges

    ALL LIFE HAS MEANING

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    a man walks a labrynth, perhaps he is looking to feed a hungry soul. Ardis Mayo, meaning of life

    All Life Has Meaning. First in a 5-part series. from The Reflective Pen Manifesto. Suppose for a moment that all of life—not just the “good parts”—had meaning.

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    When Everyone Is Dying

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    dog with his chin on the floor feeling grief and loss and question the purpose of living. facing an obstacle with no solution.everyone is dying

    What do we do when everyone seems to be dying? Lately, that question has followed me from week to week. I’ve been to six funerals in the past…

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    Wisdom from Dekker

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    Dekker the Service Dog waits by a fog with mist

    As I, Dekker the Service Dog, settle in with my nose tucked under one paw and the other stretched out just far enough to feel the cool tile,…

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