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Old Year Gratitude; New Year Hope

Janice Campbell — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:55:10 +0000

This year — 2020 — is almost over. It’s been quite a year! Decades from now, I’m guessing that people will remember it most as the Year of the Pandemic; the year that Covid-19 changed the way that many of...

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Keeping Thanks in Thanksgiving

Janice Campbell — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:53:03 +0000

Thanksgiving is an opportunity to spend time with loved ones and give thanks for the blessings of the year. Ideally, the holiday is something to anticipate with joy. Realistically, I know that the prospect of spending a day or more with a houseful of volatile opinion...

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Gratefulness and Thanksgiving

Janice Campbell — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:00:46 +0000

Enjoy a poem (Gratefulnesse by George Herbert); a recipe (cranberry-orange relish), and a Thanksgiving sale, aka Homeschool Black Friday).

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Can Changing Your Thoughts Change Your Life?

Janice Campbell — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:02:23 +0000

Remember the schoolyard taunt, “What you say is what you are!”? It usually followed a mature exchange of insults, often beginning with “cooties,” and progressing through booger-possession to “You’re just dumb!” Thankfully, the recess bell usually intervened in time to...

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Giving and Receiving Grace-fully

Janice Campbell — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:14:22 +0000

Create traditions that work within your family, greet gifts with love and gratitude, and whatever you give, give in a spirit of love and grace, releasing the recipient from any assumed obligation for a specific type of response or reciprocation. True gifts come without strings!

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“Gratefulness”- A Poem of Thanksgiving and a Recipe

Janice Campbell — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:14:15 +0000

This is my favorite Thanksgiving poem, and if you have been with me for many years, you know that you’ll receive it each year as my Thanksgiving “article.” It is a poem of grace and beauty, and I hope you...

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