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Sharpening A Spiritual Habit for Better Mental Health

Sharpening: A Spiritual Habit for Better Mental Health

Life will blunt your edge. The knocks, the scuffs, the micro-abrasions and who you are gets dulled. Having a daily sharpening practice keeps your mental health having a fine edge. I was getting frustrated. I was cutting down a tree with my chainsaw, and it was taking forever. The teeth of […]

If You Put Your Nose to the Grindstone Rough

If You Put Your Nose to the Grindstone Rough

If you put your nose to the grindstone rough, And keep it down there long enough, You will soon conclude that there are no such things, As a brook that babbles or a bird that sings. These three things will your world compose: Just you, the stone, And your ground-down […]

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7 Steps to Help Those who Ruminate.

Sometimes I think I am like a cow. I ruminate over things, chewing my thoughts this way and that. Trying to extract something good out of them.  Much of my life I have worked on farms, I even have a University Degree in Agriculture. I humorously call this my first […]