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I have been trying a parent with her pre-teen daughter who has been battling a number issues. She has openly admitted to having issues at listening to her daughter because all she does is complain about this, that, and the other. This is not her own biological daughter, this is a child she has...

There is a member of this forum that has on their signature line that reads "US Police have killed 681 people so far in 2015"... what it does not say is this, of those killed by police...how many are suicide by cop and that number so far this year is 98. That is about 1/7th of the total people...

This is something I came across from our international organizational and I tailored it to fit myself and our program. I shared it with our Pastor today and we will be using this as a bulletin insert as a way of getting people in the church to be thinking and praying if they are supposed to...

Allow me to start this by saying that a friend who is a Pastor in Texas was sharing on Facebook about the Five Truths of God's Wrath. This morning when I walked into church our Pastor said he was going away from his normal message. That said, he started sharing in Psalm 64 and moved into...

This summer, we are upping our game compared to last summer. Last year was the first time we had a Summer Youth Program at our Church for 6th, 7th, & 8th graders. This year we are adding in 5th and 9th graders to the program. We plan to grow the program each year by a couple of grades each...

For several months now we have not allowed our daughter to visit my wife's parents because of what we call safety concerns. My wife's cousin has shared with us some things she has observed and some things that have happened to her. My wife's Dad has been showing up with lots of bruises over...

Last year our youth program had 13 leaders and we had 14 familie's kids participating in this program. Now you may be thinking, that is not much. Well we are a small church that wanted to reach into the community and the leaders came out last year to assist us. However, this year when I told...

This has been a rough month in our family. My father-in-law had a heart attack on the 18th, my sister-in-law was in an auto accident on the same day, my wife's cousin also had some heart related issues that landed the three of them of them in the same hospital. Later that week my Mom went...

This has been one really wild month and it all started at about the same time. At the beginning of this month my daughter became very ill and it took the doctors awhile to figure out why because she was battling multiple issues all at the same time and not one of them was associated with the...

I was notified today about one of the kids in our Awana Program whose mother has just been diagnosed with cancer in the last couple of weeks. Her son is only 6 years old. The mother went in for emergency surgery to remove the lymph nodes as that is where they found some of the first issues...

The past few months I have really been challenged on the school board in my Christian beliefs and if I could really stay on this board. I have been serving on this board for almost 20 months. While on the board, I almost became part of a cover-up where the high school was going to allow...

I took my daughter to see a doctor associated with Mercy Hospital in Portland having to do with her issues of the foot and ankle today. The doctor we saw wanted to know why were coming in for a second opinion and everybody knows me knows I hold nothing back. So I told him exactly why, the...

Last year it was their oldest daughter who had an incident on the local ski slopes and just finished healing from that incident. This year it is the their oldest son...yesterday afternoon while skiing at the local resort our neighbors son fell and sprained his knee and sprained his ankle...

Over the last week, our youth group ministry team came to me and said I think it is high time we prayed for not only each other in this program, but also these kids. But it does not end there, we would also like to see the program grow from its current size to something more. All I really...

We have a Maine Coon Cat and for those not familiar with them, they grow to a good size...a male grows to about 19 lbs on average. Well my daughters jumped up on the desk this morning, did not anticipate his aim properly, landed on the laptop, smashed his head into the screen, dug his claws...

She had her appendix removed. It had ruptured. She was rushed in for emergency surgery back at the end of November the day after Thanksgiving. While she was in the hospital she had her ups and downs. For awhile the antibiotics were working then they were not then they were again. She is 10...

My Mom has been awaiting knee replacement surgery for awhile now. She has now had it postponed twice. Today was the ultimate of problems. They tried to do a nuclear stress test. Things did not go well. She was having issues with the upper chambers of her heart. Just to be sure it is not...

I was on this road the other morning and this is what it looked like. This was from 1998, while the damage was much worse...we still have a few thousand without power after 11 days. Back in 1998 we had over 700,000 customers without power across the state. We have been lucky this go...

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This was taken one morning on Route 302 in Naples Taken from behind the Campfire Grille Restaurant in Bridgton Portland Headlight in Cape Elizabeth Sebago Lake at Sunrise