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What is UP with THAT???

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I know, I know. I'm complaining for no real reason. Let's say that's agreed upon and move on to my beef. Then I can get off my soap box. I go to work. I work in a 'right to work' state. I have a body. I have needs. Who's responsibility is it to fulfill those personal needs? I realize there are some personal needs of which the responsibilities for lie in gray areas. And then there are the other personal needs. I need to have breakfast. I need to blow my nose on occasion. So who's responsibility is it to provide me with food? Who's responsibility is it to provide me with tissues? It is a nicety if the company I work for has boxes of tissues available for me. It is a nicety, a kindness if they allow me to use their equipment (blender, microwave, stove, pots, pans, etc.) to mix up, warm up, and/or cook my meal there. It is a nicety if they let me use their electricity and plug my Hot Logic in to slowly warm my lunch for the day. I don't believe

Mourning a Little Child

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Barbara 1962 “ …except they humble themselves and become as little children .” Mosiah 3:18 3 January 2018 I believe that writing your feelings and thoughts is a very good way to work through your grief. It’s hard. Grief. Grief for things not done or rather couldn’t be done. Grief for how hard mortality really is. Exodus 34:6-7: And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Deuteronomy 5:9-10 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,