If you can't think of anything nice to say...you're not thinking hard enough. Wednesday February 1, 2017 Do you want to make it big? Do you have big plans for your life? Do you want big beautiful things to happen to you and your family? Start small. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Hour after hour. Minute by minute. May you be blessed with small aspirations that lead to big
change. It doesn't take a big effort to forward today's Daily Blessing. MENU FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR GUILT, CONFUSION, WITH A SIDE OF ANGST
"It's not guilt, it's gratefulness. Or, maybe it's
guilt over lack of gratefulness. That's part of the ritual. That's actually the useful function of these rituals; to use shame and guilt so you become more moral."
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Kat Chow, NPR's Code Switch | I'm in the middle of tapping out an email to my dad, deleting and retyping sentences.
On Friday night I'll cook an abridged Chinese New Year Eve dinner, I write. Maybe I'll cook noodles (symbolizing happiness, longevity) or dumplings (symbolizing wealth). I don't tell him what I'll do exactly.
This is the first time in my adult life, apart from drinking
parties organized under the guise of making dumplings for Lunar New Year, that I've paid attention to this holiday... READ
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"I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden wealth of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, the Lord, who calls you by your
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REUNION
Pray that my husband would be reunited with us his family. We have been trying to get him back home with us. Let God cause the Immigration service to answer us swiftly. We all miss him, and need him back with us.
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CAMEL JOKES FOR A HAPPY HUMP DAY
What do you call a camel without a hump?
Humphrey
What do you call a crying camel?
A
humpback wail
The baby camel wakes his parents up and asks for a glass of water. Dad says to his wife,” Honey, he must be sick. That’s his second glass this month.”
Today I will not...fret. Instead of worry and dread, I will shake myself free to see the good all around me. The air I breathe, a smiling face, the chance for a new and better day, every single day. |
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