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SERMON: Dealing With Difficult People |
Your first approach in dealing with difficult behavior is to pray and ask God how to deal with this behavior before you do anything else. God will show you how to deal with the difficult person, although his answer may come indirectly through another source.
His answer may come as an impression to your mind, or it may come while reading the Bible or talking to a friend about the situation. There is a danger of assuming because a certain method worked the last time that it will work again. Depending on different situations, we can discover ways to deal with difficult people in our lives, without letting the actions and words of these people destroy us.
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EDITORIAL: Food Is Fuel
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We (as a unified world) should be concerned when one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and live an active life (a large majority of these being children and mothers).
We have a seriously threatening problem when mothers cannot afford real food for their hungry children because the prices of health food are so high in comparison to junk food.
When Sister Josephite Joan Healy, who works for the Catholic Social services of Australia, explored more remote indigenous populations in South Australia she discovered to her dismay many women and children in dire need of nutritional food sources.
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OPINION: Reducing Demand by Holding Users Accountable
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Imagine, you are a fourteen year old girl looking at a fashion magazine, hoping to attain some idea of what it means to be "beautiful" in our beauty-obsessive society.
Look at that beautiful, skinny, skeletal model! She looks like she has starved herself for weeks, her figure more like the lanky pre-pubescent boy that the fashion designers promote as the perfect walking hanger for the latest vogues.
Thinness is definitely in.
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GOOD NEWS: Here and There Three
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Fairfax, Virginia County Judge Donald McDonough revealed his generous heart in the settlement of an eviction case brought before him on June 23rd.
A newly married deaf couple were taken to court by their landlord when they were $250 short on their rent. The judge heard arguments, then "abruptly left the courtroom."
Returning a minute later, he leaned over the bench and handed two $100 bills and a $50 bill to the landlord's attorney.
"Consider it paid," he said, and he quietly dismissed the case.
In the stunned courtroom, as a sign-language interpreter translated, a grateful tenant "pressed her hands to her chest."
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FICTION: Tails of Aspabibia, Chapter 1, Part 9
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The Cellar was dim and cold. As far as the eye could see, the walls were lined with racks of frosty, corked bottles. Each one was full to the brim with chilled milk. Some of the milk was goat, some cow. They lay on their sides like fallen warriors. There were hundreds of bottles, row upon row, lying in icy formation.
All around the room, gigantic separating crocks stood on heavy metal stands. The cow's milk within them was silently giving up its cream in a steady rise to the top. Tomorrow the Elderly Tenders would skim it off and bottle it up for special occasions.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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I am a confident, happy person almost all of the time, everyday. But, at night I wake up about 4 A.M. and I have severe "night terrors." I start thinking about all the things that can go wrong and I start to twitch and have rapid heart beats with palpitations and dire fears of doom and failure. My doctor says my heart is solid and healthy and just wants to give me drugs.
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