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Bible verse of the day
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.—Titus 2:2Thoughts on Tod...
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...
Ebb and Flow
Defined, ebb and flow is a recurrent or rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth. The frequently used phrase is used to describe...
Defeating Our Giants
One of the greatest battles in history was not fought between two armies but rather between two people, David and Goliath. How could David defeat a gi...
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...
