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Category Archives: Maturity
A Trip to Rohrville
I’ve been building my own website at http://www.wmeades.com for at least 15 years now. Since I didn’t know what I was doing when I started it, it slowly turned into this rather disorganized “thing” as I added stuff. I describe … Continue reading
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Eulogy for a Beautiful Mom
My sweet Mom, Helen, passed from this world to the next late last Tuesday evening. Many thanks to the nurses at the BSA Hospice House for their tender care of her and my Dad during the last days of her … Continue reading
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Be Curious
Presence guides us to a healthy sense of self-restraint and self-sacrifice, enabling us to play with our attachments, to confront our own prison. We may learn to slip out of the stranglehold of egoism, which is based in desire and … Continue reading
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Authentic Self goes to Church
I’ve been teaching a Sunday School class at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church here in Waco, America. This coming Sunday is the last installment of “Monday through Saturday Spirituality.” I’ve been using the concepts of Authentic Self and small self to … Continue reading
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Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 3
DO YOU KINDLE? If so, would you please part with 99 cents and download my first Kindle “mini-book”experiment? It’s titled Blessing, Grace, and Incarnation: The Foundations of the Spiritual Marriage and Family. I’m looking for additional ways to fund the … Continue reading
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Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 2
Thank you for your comments and questions on my last entry (some left on the blog, some emailed to me). Many of you said that you could relate to my experience, and the question most raised was something like, “But … Continue reading
Leave Your Spouse While You are Still in Love – Part 1
. . A few years ago I thought I might want to leave my marriage. During a struggle that lasted over a year, only one person ever said to me, “You mustn’t do that.” It wasn’t any of my friends. … Continue reading
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Responses to “Marriage as Formation”
Greetings from beautiful Leakey, Texas, a tiny burg that lies along the Frio River. My family has been spending the week of the fourth with a passle of friends from Austin for nearly 15 years! I received more comments on … Continue reading
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Marriage As Formation
. Marriage as Formation “I marry in order to mature.” In previous blog entries I’ve suggested that people marry for different reasons (duh) and that it can be helpful to understand how each of three core reasons might be effecting … Continue reading
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Marriage as Enrichment
Formatting issues abound in Blogger – line spacing issues… weird font size changes, etc…. I’ve looked into other blogging platforms, and concluded that Blogger has about the same number of issues as the others. If there are any experts out … Continue reading
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