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Do you love your enemy?
I wrote this a long time ago, June 3, 2007. Some of my writings were lost, but I wanted to revive this one. I liked what I wrote at the time: In the fifth chapter of Matthew we have:Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’…
A caregiver for the Kurklis family
So after I got the news that my mom had been in the hospital, I soon came back to my hometown of Atlanta. This is not something I was expecting, but I am very honored to serve my family. In the middle of September, my mother fell and hit her head and then had a…
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A Lifetime of Connections and a New Era of Exploration
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