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Be kind – but it DOESN’T mean be nice! || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards MA
Being too nice can kill you. This is how it starts: Your body says to you, “You’re doing it again. You strongly disagree with what that person’s saying/doing, but you’re smiling and going along even though you’re seething inside. You’re stressing, so I’m releasing adrenaline and cortisol into your bloodstream. That’s what I do. Your…
Read MoreFate’s Interventions—Minus Fatalism II By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
A skinny, awkward, sixteen-year-old steps fearfully onto the stage. It’s Amateur Night at the Harlem Opera House. The announcer says, “The next contestant is a young lady named Ella Fitzgerald. . . .Miss Fitzgerald is gonna dance for us. . . . Hold it, hold it. Now, what’s your problem, honey? . . . Correction,…
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