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By Marla Boone

The children and I have come to enjoy our times spent with my cousin Josh, his wife Joyce, and their five children. At any given time they, as many others, have been there for us during these times of adjusting and readjusting as we miss Daniel.

By David Lindeman

Here is a list of things the world needs:

By Ian Ridgeway, MPA

Why is it so easy to always be living on the last half of everything? Whether it’s the last half of energy, the last half of time, the last half of resources; we so naturally plan and do all we possibly can.

What in the world were they thinking?

I’m amazed as I see God at work. He’s been working through you, my friends, who have been praying for us and supporting us in countless ways over the past 10 months since Daddy Daniel was called home to heaven. This past week I was amazed anew; yes, I think that is the best-describing word I can find, for what I felt as I chatted with a friend I knew well during our little girl days when we lived in Ohio.

Nurses work long hours to care for and keep patients safe. They dedicate their days and nights to providing high quality health care. And they have done all of this throughout the worst health crisis of our lifetimes, putting their own health at risk to provide care and comfort to their patients.

It might be time to consider changing the name of our country. Instead of the United States of America, we could be the Contentious States of America.