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Doubt allows unlimited possibilities. Doubt enables awe. Awe is preferable to certainty. Doubt is not a state of being lost. I am not lost. I have never been more aware of who I am. The Supreme Being knows who I am, my mind, and my heart. And if there is no Supreme Being, what I think doesn't matter.

Eat breakfast, and drink plenty of water from the moment you wake up until you sleep at night. If you can drink five glasses of water a day, you're benefiting from an age-old ritual of cleansing the body and increasing the calorie-burning rate of the muscles.




This is a great way for your kids to send something sweet to the kids at Children's. There are a variety of cards to choose from, and you can personalize the message inside. Then volunteers print them out and give them to the kids. Do one or do 20 - it's a way to cheer up someone without spending a penny.

Check out Local Flower and gift Shops. Small businesses like these are filled with possible customers, since they're all looking for something with that personal touch. The vendors may even let you advertise, or strike up some sort of partnership where they may want to work with you!

My empty faith comforts me in my ignorance. I can doubt without fear. My ignorance is an honest state of mind, as it is with my fellow mammals. If the Divine wanted to be well known, man's religions would not need to work so hard at it. I know something of the enormity of the universe-it's violence and indifference toward man. I know about man's inhumanity to man. I know how passive an all-powerful being can be in the face of man's cruelty toward his own, or the cruelty of insanity, or the acts of the insane against the innocent, or the cruelty of prolonged, painful death. If there is meaning in suffering, it is usually discovered well after one is relieved of it.

Several years later, I struggled with postpartum depression. I had a new baby girl and a four-year-old son. click here coupled with the hormone imbalance of childbirth threw off my sleep cycle. Two close friends had just moved out-of-state. I felt irritable, spacey, trapped, weepy, or just plain sleepy. I was concerned about certain health problems, worried about finances and my work productivity. Where is God? I was tempted to cry.

A. I had many 'Aha' moments while working with my patients throughout the years. In particular, seeing what psychological deprivation could do to someone's eating behavior, noticing how our society through the years was looking more and more like my eating disordered patients due to the preoccupation with dieting and food, made me want to write a book for the general public that struggles with failing attempts at controlling their eating and weight.

He chose a spa in the city where he could take the kids to Sealife and the Shopping Mall while I had a pampered day. A city spa is an ideal choice for a day at the spa on your own if you live close to the city. Had it been a weekend at a spa with my husband then it would have been ideal to drive further out where we could take in a bit of the countryside. But to be honest when you are in the spa you forget about outside and simply become part of the tranquil, clean and luxurious environment.