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2024-12-24T14:03:33-05:00

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The Light at the Core of Christmas

Last updated on: December 24, 2024 at 2:03 pm By Beverly R. Green

Darkness to Light When it comes to Christmas, I’m sure every single facet has been explored over and over, dissected, examined, and studied … but the Word is alive, and it can speak to one in different ways at different times. For me this year, the focus was light. The winter solstice has just passed: December 21–the darkest day of the year. That means that even now, the days are growing lighter. The process is slow, perhaps undetectable on... Read more

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2025-08-29T16:14:27-04:00

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The Creator vs. the created [Jesus or AI]

Last updated on: August 29, 2025 at 4:14 pm By Beverly R. Green

The Creator vs. the created [Jesus or AI] Early in the school year I was required to attend a three hour lecture about AI and the classroom student. It is a new inconvenience that we who teach writing are attempting to deal with. About the time there is a program that will detect the use of AI, someone makes AI more undetectable. In other words, when one group invents a better mousetrap, AI becomes a better mouse. Predictive... Read more

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2024-12-11T19:18:24-05:00

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Living As An Introvert in a Big, Loud World

Last updated on: December 11, 2024 at 7:18 pm By Beverly R. Green

Living As An Introvert in a Big, Loud World According to the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventory, I am an extreme introvert. This did not come as a surprise to me. I have always been what one might call shy. At the age of 68, I am still learning to live as an introvert in a big, loud world. Living as an Introvert The first indications of my introvert status came when I was a child. I... Read more

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Education and Religion

2024-11-28T12:21:49-05:00

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A Thanksgiving Lesson from Grandma

Last updated on: November 28, 2024 at 12:21 pm By Beverly R. Green

A Thanksgiving Memory from Grandma Memory Lane: When I was a child, we always had cats. They all lived outdoors, and some of them were pretty rough. My grandmother always fussed at them and called them some rather *inappropriate* names. As for the cats, they adored her! Then would come Thanksgiving, and Grandma would take the turkey giblets (which we wouldn’t touch with a 10′ pole), and season and cook them up for the cat! Her answer to the... Read more

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Family, Parenting and Religion

2024-11-18T14:32:43-05:00

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It’s Thanksgiving–and I Don’t Cook! (Recipes)

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 2:32 pm By Beverly R. Green

It’s Thanksgiving–and I Don’t Cook! Here Are Some Fast and Easy Thanksgiving Sides for the Non-Cook So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Some Thanksgiving dinners turn into real family affairs, and all adults are expected to participate in the preparation. That’s good and fair, I suppose, but the non-cook who volunteers the paper products or a gallon of tea can face more... Read more

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Food and Religion

2024-11-14T14:03:27-05:00

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The Benefit of Just One Night Away

Last updated on: November 14, 2024 at 2:03 pm By Beverly R. Green

The Benefit of Just One Night Away I’m not sure what made me remember this. Maybe because I have been dealing with work-related stress lately, but I remembered a time when I just needed one night away. This happened a lot of years ago. My children were two and four years old, and I was a single parent. Perhaps some of you can identify with the fact that I cried every day. I often felt like a total failure... Read more

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Family, Parenting and Religion

2024-11-11T14:44:35-05:00

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What’s Wrong With My Tunnel Vision?

Last updated on: November 11, 2024 at 2:44 pm By Beverly R. Green

What’s Wrong With My Tunnel Vision? tunnel vision: noun constriction of the visual field resulting in loss of peripheral vision extreme narrowness of viewpoint : narrow-mindedness single-minded concentration on one objective Sometimes tunnel vision is a bad thing, like in definitions 1 and 2 above. This week, I have the definition 3 type of tunnel vision. It is performance week at school, and I am the drama teacher. To complicate matters, I suggested a mystery dinner theater this semester, which... Read more

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Family, Parenting and Religion

2024-11-04T09:49:14-05:00

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A Child, a Daisy, and the Birth of Political Mud-Slinging

Last updated on: November 4, 2024 at 9:49 am By Beverly R. Green

A Child, A Daisy, and the Birth of Political Mud-Slinging It seems there has always been negativity attached to American Presidential elections. People disagree, sometimes vehemently, with the other party’s candidate. Maybe an attack on one’s opponent is considered “good politics.” To me, “good politics” is an oxymoron, and political ads are definitely the worst of the worst part of contemporary election tactics. Where did it all come from, I wonder. I remember a child, a daisy, and the subtle... Read more

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2024-11-01T15:59:51-04:00

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The Battle Strategies of Exodus 17

Last updated on: November 1, 2024 at 3:59 pm By Beverly R. Green

The Battle Strategies of Exodus 17 Challenge #1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” But the people were thirsty for water there, and... Read more

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2024-10-19T08:25:43-04:00

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A Walk in the Past in Schoenbrunn Village

Last updated on: October 19, 2024 at 8:25 am By Beverly R. Green

A Walk in the Past in Schoenbrunn Village Nestled into the rural landscape near New Philadelphia, Ohio exists the remnants of a lovely village that was a successful adventure in early American acceptance and inclusion. This reconstructed village offers a glimpse into the past when Ohio was considered frontier and was largely populated by Indigenous People–the Delaware. Schoenbrunn Village is the site of Ohio’s first Christian settlement, first church, first schoolhouse and first code of laws. “The village, restored... Read more

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