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Stepping into the unknown
I believe that it was Earl Nightingale who said, “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside...

You need to finish what you start
Norma was seventy-six years old when she enrolled in our outpatient hospice program. Norma was born and raised in Wheelersburg, Ohio, but worked for t...

He still moves stones
It is the end of the Sabbath and the beginning of the first day of the week and the sun is starting to peek over the horizon. As we survey the landsca...

Always on his mind
Each year the week before Easter we find ourselves perched, if you will, on the Mount of Olives looking toward the Holy City of Jerusalem, trying to i...

It’s what you didn’t do
David was a self-employed businessman; a logger and sawmill owner. He was in his mid-fifties when he was admitted to Hospice with terminal cancer. I e...

It’s the morals America
A recently conducted poll found that most adult Americans have a negative view of the youth and attribute kids’ faults to a lack of moral founda...

Where courage abounds
It was the English statesman Sir Edmund Burke who said, “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possi...

Grow in grace and knowledge
If you’ve ever planted a garden, you know that the only way it can grow properly is if they are carefully nurtured. In order to have good flower...

Did I ask you for your advice?
This week I’m not writing about a hospice patient; I’m confessing my sins. I confess that giving unsolicited advice and making premature s...
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.—Rom...