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Episode 237: Count Your Blessings →

Some time ago, a dear friend and great grandma who has faced many emotional challenges in her life, shared some thoughts about counting. This dear friend regularly reads this Warm Thoughts column and wanted to share the thoughts by an unknown author with all you dear readers out there, somewhere. We live in an age where we have many choices and changes. Some time ago, I heard someone state that "pain is inevitable, but misery and being miserable is a choice." In the School of learning and hard knocks, the following thoughts may warm our hearts and perhaps motivate us in our own countdown.

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tags: count, thoughts, warm, sharing, unknown author, Werner, dear, carefully, Marion, readers, life, grandma, countdown, choice, change, motivate, friend
categories: quote, reflection, intention
Tuesday 09.10.24
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 210: Fresh Dreams →

This is the first Warm Thoughts column for 1998: An unknown author once wrote this New Year’s thought…”What the New Year will bring us depends a great deal on what we bring into the New Year.” Among the many Christmas greeting cards received were many warm thoughts.

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tags: year, peace, future, tomorrows, lord, greeting cards, Marion, life, warm, best wishes, heart, journey, challenge, oneness, consideration, opportunity, unknown author, fills, climb, Werner
categories: reflection, holiday, prayer, history, memories, intention, quote
Tuesday 01.09.24
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 208: Twas the Night Before Jesus Came →

As the days come closer to Christmas, the children become very excited. It becomes difficult to concentrate on classes. The Christmas holidays will soon be here!

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tags: jesus, written, poem, cried, clatter, unknown author, worldly wisdom, stood, twas, christmas, sash, merry christmas, arose, tore, rose, head, posessed, Marion, gathered, bright
categories: home, reflection, holiday, prayer
Tuesday 12.12.23
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 204: Liberty →

November: the month of Remembrance Day, also known as Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving Day. How thankful we are to live in our America. Liberty, so precious a gift for each of us. It is so special that we can enjoy our liberty every day here in America.

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tags: liberty, country, loved ones, day, america, price, god, j edgar hoover, home, nation, prairie, remembrance, francis scott key, unknown author, nurtured, Werner, hearth, people, family, traveled, wide
categories: reflection, intention, family, friends, service, history, home, prayer
Tuesday 11.14.23
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 110: Season of Beauty →

It is always a joy to have that extra hour in your life, in the fall of the year when the time changes. Change. Yes. Change is a way of life. The month of October makes us really aware of the joys we experience when seasons change in some parts of the world. In the month of October, there is also a Sunday called "mother in law's day". I call it, "mother-in-love," and then a column last May, I shared the poem by an unknown author entitled "Mother-in-Love." I would be glad to send you this beautiful poem, if you write me and ask for copy.

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tags: mother, unknown author, law, poem, thoughts, joy, October, daughter, Marion, change, month, Abraham Lincoln, season, compensate, weary, thankful, autumn, hope, William Wordsworth, beautiful
categories: reflection, family, poetry
Tuesday 10.26.21
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 73: Learning from the Cows →

The author who wrote the book, "All I ever Learned I Learned in Kindergarten," could not have meant it for the generation who were born before kindergarten began. Since I never attended kindergarten, I find special joy and listening to granddaughter Trina telling me what she is learning in her kindergarten class. She is learning some new songs I've never heard before, among other things that I do not know. How exciting it must be to go to kindergarten! I was amused the other day when I read an essay written by an unknown author entitled, "All I Need to Know About Life, I Learned From a Cow."

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tags: unknown author, kindergarten, learned, cow, Trina, John Ruskin, churned, author, top, graze, lessons, answer, herd, essay, thoughts, swallowing, lives, bossy, chew, wrote
categories: reading, reflection, family
Monday 11.02.20
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 72: Mothers & Daughters →

It is always a joy to have that extra hour in your life in the fall of the year when the time changes. Change. Yes. Change is a way of life. The month of October makes us really aware of the joys we experienced when seasons change in some parts of the world.

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tags: mother, unknown author, poem, law, joy, thoughts, William Wordsworth, October, daughter, warm, month, change, compensate, Abraham Lincoln, clocks, write, hope, season, caring, man
categories: reading, reflection, family
Monday 10.26.20
Posted by Trina Harger
 

Episode 65: Intentional Counting →

Some time ago, a dear friend and great grandma who has faced many emotional challenges in her life, shared some thoughts about counting. This dear friend regularly reads this Warm Thoughts column and wanted to share the thoughts of an unknown author, with all you, dear readers out there, somewhere. We live in an age where we have many choices and changes.

Some time ago, I heard someone state that, "Pain is inevitable, but misery and being miserable is a choice." In the school of learning and hard knocks, the following thoughts may warm our hearts, and perhaps motivate us in our own countdown.

Read more

tags: count, thoughts, warm, sharing, dear friend, thoughtful, gift, motivate, miserable, unknown author, choice, inevitable, countdown, misery, choose, dear, wealth, blessings, readers, hearts, grandma
categories: reflection, memories, meditation, prayer
Monday 08.17.20
Posted by Trina Harger
 

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