The Recall on your Beliefs

A few years ago I came down with an illness that according to the doctors I spoke with was likely the Flu. This was perhaps the most ill I have ever felt in my life. For about two weeks I was basically bedridden with fever, body aches and all the other ailments that come along with the flu with seemingly no relief in sight. Ill enough I had no appetite to eat. We had recently purchased a box of peanut butter dipping cups. I love peanut butter, so this particular application of peanut butter in small portions coupled with something simple like crackers to dip helped me not starve during these two weeks. After what seemed like a very long two weeks, I was starting to turn a corner with this illness, and though not 100% felt well enough to go back to work, and help with chores around the house.

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Sacrificing the Firstborn

The fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin is told as following:

There was once a miller who was poor, but he had one beautiful daughter. It happened one day that he came to speak with the king, and, to give himself consequence, he told him that he had a daughter who could spin gold out of straw. The king said to the miller: “That is an art that pleases me well; if thy daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to my castle to-morrow, that I may put her to the proof.”

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Witnesses and Dimwits

Not long ago I had a dream that left an impression on me. Not some fantastical or visionary dream, but a dream that does what dreams are supposed to do – help process what is in your subconscious. This was a dream similar to many I’ve had in the past. Ever since I returned from serving a mission, I’ve had dreams that I’m being sent back out on one.

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Follow the Profit

“In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit”. So starts one of the best fictional stories known to mankind. A hobbit named Bilbo Baggins who enjoys the simple, comfortable, and cozy life of the Shire is one day met by the wizard, Gandalf. Gandalf and a group of dwarves convince Bilbo to leave his quiet life to go on an adventure across the land to the Lonely Mountain in hopes of retrieving a massive treasure seized decades earlier by the great dragon, Smaug. He was promised a portion of the treasure for his assistance.

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