Author: Leslie Rae Newton
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How do you go on
This morning, during my tax appointment, my accountant asked, “how do you do it? how do you go on surgery to surgery?” I told him it is easier to come back from than a broken heart or a broken home. True it is hard and scary to go back to the very thing that hurt…
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Take off the blinders
Sometimes there are situations in life that need changing, and that is obvious. It is even obvious where everything went downhill. But, where so many go wrong is having all of the pieces before them and still not seeing how they all go together. I have always wondered why some people can’t see, even when…
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Have A Little Faith
Waking up at 4:19 in the morning, wide awake, has a few up sides…more down sides though…it’s a great time for cleaning, thinking and reading. All of which I did. I had begun Mitch Albom’s book, Have a Little Faith, some time ago, and actually forgot I hadn’t finished it. Reading in the dim light,…
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Depths Of My Heart
Working on the computer, listing to music, Indescribable (Chris Tomlin) began to stream through the speakers. It is a familiar song and often plays with little attention from me, but not today. Today my heart listened to the words as though I had never heard them before. “You see the depths of my heart and…
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The Effort of a Champion
I have been thinking a lot lately about what is the difference between someone who ‘makes it’ and some one who doesn’t. There are many differences on a superficial level. Some may even say it is the difference between those who want it enough and those who just want. I’m not sure that is fair.…
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Done Competing?
I have had so many people ask me if I am done…”with what?” I ask…”competing,” they respond. It is true, I have had my third knee surgery in three years and yes, I have another one to go. It is also true that I have come back after two surgeries; I have overcome odds that…
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Hello 30’s
Today I wake up 30-years-old. Not too long ago I professed that I wasn’t going to turn 30 easily. As my birthday came closer, I resolved that there was nothing left to do in my 20’s. So many people have told me repeatedly that the 30’s is the best decade. I was told that the…
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New Hope
Last years headlines were stricken with loss and doubt and worry, yet we made it. We survived doom and gloom to find ourselves turning over a new year offering a new hope. Presented with a clean slate for a fresh start, we truck on in the quest of the American dream, but what is easily…
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New Year’s Resolution: Dry-Run
At the gym yesterday, I did something out of character, and was called on it (I was nice and lacked my usual dry humor, totally outta character). My response was “I’m trying something new.” My friend said it wasn’t even New Year’s yet, I had a few more week for my ‘old ways.’ I told…
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New Blog
We are close to the end of the year, and with that comes thoughts of the new year, new goals, new opportunities and new dreams. I am excited about my new “blogging” spot! A year ago I would have never thought I would have such an organized system. Five years ago, I never would have…