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What we ought to be about

9/27/05 Dad’s prayer  Our Father in Heaven – we thank you again for Your Grace and patience with us – for the beauty of this day – for the joy of family and friends.  Give us greater understanding of what we ought to be about – of things that need to be changed and the wisdom to change them. Amen

What we ought to be about, is not always what we need to be about. We spin our wheels in the mud of trivialities a lot until we are stuck. Worse, we can’t see it.

Prioritizing takes courage and vision and the right perspective.

The background photo, I took yesterday at lunch, of the Maumee River algae bloom. You need to look straight down at, because from a distance, it looks fairly normal…but it’s not.

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September 27, 2017
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Categories: Joy, UncategorizedTags: algae bloom, downtown Toledo, Lake Erie, Maumee River

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