Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

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Reply to I Blew It Again! in Marital Issues JoeUser Forums

It is a humbling and difficult place to be, yet somehow I feel strangely alive. Perhaps because of that which I needed to deaden in the process of compromise. JOA

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I Blew It Again! in Marital Issues JoeUser Forums

I have just been catapulted from the delight of delusion to the ruins of reality. The fog lifted like a two by four on the side of my incredibly thick skull and I find myself in the midst of a self forged disaster. No one to blame this time, it was totally my fault. Faced with the unenviable responsibility of informing my loved ones and colleges of my indiscretion,

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Oven Cleaning: A refreshing experience in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

It has actually been 15 years or more since I cleaned an oven. We have always had the self cleaning type, a house keeper or perhaps scrubbing bubbles that came while I was sleeping. Which ever, I, the Woman of the House have somehow been spared……..until now. We have lived here, I am embarrassed to say how many years and though the oven has been wiped out from t

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Will You Feed Me? in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

what a magical morning- i woke to a summons from Tinisha, "nicholas is crying" i went in and there was a bright eyed baby with the question just bursting from him "will you feed me?" i picked him up and took him to make his bottle, changed his diaper, snuggled him up in a blanket, as i snuggled into the rocker with him and

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Pursuit For A Lifetime in Religion JoeUser Forums

Through a number of difficult situations over the last several years, I have had an epiphany: Love really IS the answer. Twenty two years ago, I became a Christian. My life had been very difficult and I found myself with no where to look but UP—that was a turning point in my life. Then, I was indoctrinated, and never having had a “normal” experience of rel

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Reply to Even Then in Classic JoeUser Forums

I wonder if you told the story in a reply to another blog, because I remember it in detail--I could swear it's the same version, right down to the "no one else had done that" at the end. Yes, I Iiked it, and obviously it was very memorable. I suppose I figured it out just like those pictures that you can see two ways. One day instead of the ugly witch I saw the beautiful lady, or something like that. Instead of Vi-talbs I saw vital-

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Reply to Even Then in Classic JoeUser Forums

I'm confused. I've read this before--was it in a former life? I like it, but what is most disturbing to me is that the date says its a week old and I read it months ago. Is this what it's like to have dementia? Is the "classic" distinction for resurrecting good "old" pieces? It reminds me a little bit of how slow I was on the uptake with vitalbs. For a few months I just assumed it was some kind of vitamin supplement you ma

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Reply to I Need You to Be Broken in Dating JoeUser Forums

T-girl, Ummm, did you love your book? I am thankful for the gift. I am a little embarassed to say that I don't grasp the depth of the story, I fear. I believe it speaks to the relationship between father and son etc., but I don't entirely get the story. Perhaps my thinking is too linear for

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Reply to I Need You to Be Broken in Dating JoeUser Forums

Trin, Did I mention I got a new tractor? Paul, I'm sorry, but that was like a burn incognito. (for the older audience, "burn" here is equivilent to insult) I thought you might think so after I wrote it, but it's a comment about your readership (or your readership that comments), not y

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Reply to I Need You to Be Broken in Dating JoeUser Forums

Sometimes I think that craving ....what this article states....is wrong. You know why? Because I'm in love with someone who encompasses perfection, and you may not think that a possibility, but if you knew the guy, you'd understand. There's something holding me back from loving him completely, though. And that, my friend, i

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Reply to I miss my friend in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Relationships go both ways, you know. Write her and let her know where you are in this whole thing. Silence leaves her to interpret and you to interpret what it means. People having a busy or difficult life is not a reason to stay disengaged--it is not protecting them, it is actually abandoning them, if anything. Of course you are feeling abandoned yourself... Tractorman

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Reply to Too Young to be called....... in Humor JoeUser Forums

GM---- I think having a grandchild at the closing of your first mid-life crisis (which I did survive by the way) is in some ways a chuckle from God. Thanks for giving me a new perspective--I am surly too young to be the president however, with Mick Jagger still kicking I think I might be in the running for Rock Star JOA

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Reply to How Do You Worship and Why??? in Religion JoeUser Forums

We all worship, whether we worship God, or something else. Think about it. What comes first in your life? A very interesting point. I think one of the things that complicates the concepts that surround worship is the religious jargon that we tend to express our ideas in. The question "What comes fi

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Reply to How Do You Worship and Why??? in Religion JoeUser Forums

there isn't a lot I would value more than human life Thanks for your comments everyone. I just wonder latour999, how do you express that value in your life. I am trying to get away from worship in the traditional sense and I guess I have a hypothesis, and tht is mearly that everyone exalts somthing

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Reply to Too Young to be called....... in Humor JoeUser Forums

My goodness, I never knew there were so many to choose from. I appreciate the point you made that children take their cues from those around them. i guess I had better decide. Thanks for your comment JOA

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