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Messages From My Friend

This website publishes my friend's 120 Blog Posts about his real-life experiences. They are Timeless & Priceless. Many viewers have expressed gratitude that "My Friend's Messages" "made their Lives breathe easier." The Blog Posts cover the 6-Categories Listed below:

Family...Relationships...Cultural Issues...Joy & Loss...Inspiration...and “True North”.

My friend's experiences are augmented by the writings of: Shakespeare, Kipling, Emerson the Books of the Bible, "The Book of Virtues", "The Breakthrough Effect", "The Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror, "The Quotable Lewis", "Things That Matter", "The Book of Joy", "The Greatest Generation", "1776", "Signature in the Cell", "Let There be Light", "The Purpose Driven Life", "The Traveler's Gift", "When in Doubt, MAKE BELIEF", the Seminars of Franciscan Priest, Richard Rohr,  etc.

This website's purpose is to open minds, soften hearts, and touch souls to "Make even one life breathe easier", through the common denominator of shared experiences.

The "MOST POPULAR" Posts are listed on the Upper-Right of the Home Page. Simply "CLICK" on the Title.

"COMMENTS" are welcome and easily made at the end of each blog post. "Clicking" on the "Title" takes you to the blog post comment. (Simply "Scroll Up" to read the Blog Post)

EACH blog post has an "Embedded YouTube MUSIC VIDEO" which enhances the Theme of the blog post Message

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Recent Popular Posts

Family:     “I Found One Love” – My friend met his wife on a blind date on New Year’s Eve – 1970. He knew after dinner that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. She told him that she never wanted to see him – again. His persistent pursuit for dates succeeded in a relationship, until she accepted a job to teach 3rd grade in Pointe Vedra, Florida (her favorite place on Earth). He would fly down one weekend a month – until… (Read More)

Relationships:  “A Violin Tableside Serenade on Valentine’s Day” – At my friend’s youngest son’s Wedding Reception Dinner, my friend’s Bridal Couple Toast was,“Love is counter-intuitive to the Secular Culture’s Mantra: “What’s in it for ME?” Love is Less about Moonlight & Balconies, and More about Patience & Acceptance. It’s sharing who we are & what we have – Asking Nothing In Return. Love has No Conditions. Surrenders the Need to be Right. And Loves one another as God Loves us. My friend added, “I remember the 1st Time that God’s Unselfish Love entered their Souls – It was at their Baptisms. And from that day to this, how God’s Grace nurtured that Love, so they could vow to Love each other, for the rest of their lives.” For the rest of my friend’s entire remarks… (Read More)

Culture: “Science Debunks Darwin’s Theory of Evolution” – Recent Scientific Discoveries debunk Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as ether False or Fraudulent. The DNA Molecule Shatters “Random Chance”. “Irreducible Complexity” eliminates “Natural Selection”. And “Haekels Embryos” of Common Ancestry were proven to be frauds. From the dust of Darwin’s False & Fraudulent Theory, rises…  (Read More)

 

Joy & Loss: ”Life’s Two Major Tasks” – Life’s Two Major Tasks are to 1st - “Build a Container” & 2nd to fill the container. The 1st is about “Doing. The 2nd is about Being. The 2nd sounds like…Risk. Trust. Surrender. Counter-Intuitive. Destiny. Love. (Read More)

 

Inspiration: “The Breakthrough Effect”  - The book “The Breakthrough Effect” chronicles the physical, emotional, and financial abuse suffered by 17 women from their awful  1st husbands. They All experienced the breakthrough from abuse by choosing the Right Man” as their 2nd husband. The Author & Publisher asked my friend to write the Qualities of the “Right Man”. He wrote… (Read More)

 

True North: “It Takes Immense Patience to Find the True North Compass of Our Hearts” – There is a small difference between the Magnetic North of our Wants and the True North of our Souls. The “True North” searches for the “Good”. Fortune & Fame are not the solutions the promise to be. Pleasure is transient. The “Good” is Grace that flows vertically from God, through us, to others.  (Read More)

 

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Popular posts

  • Art: The Portrayal of God’s Creation, Forgiveness, & Reconciliation with Man
  • Kipling’s Poem “If” – with Biblical Similarities
  • Evidence of the Presence of the Holy Spirit
  • Science Debunks Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
  • Lessons Learned from the Movie “the Upside”
  • About “Forgiveness”
  • A Violin Table Side Serenade on Valentine’s Day
  • It Takes “Immense Patience” to Find “The True North Compass of Our hearts”
  • Hat Full of Peas Story
  • “I Found One Love”
  • The Meaning of Wishing: “Merry Christmas”
  • “The Kissmobile” – Literally, “La Dolce Vita”
  • A Bride’s Choice of Two Men on Her Wedding Day
  • Life’s Two Major Tasks
  • The Breakthrough Effect

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