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Lynn C Tolson: Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:48 AM
Guest Post by Lynn C Tolson – On Growing Up Catholic
Adapted from Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor’s Story © by Lynn C. Tolson
Like many Americans of Italian descent, my family was of the Roman Catholic religion. My grandmother had statues of saints on her dresser, and a picture of the Pope over her bed. My mother prayed with me, on our knees, before bed: If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Our family activities were based on the religious calendar |
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Lynn C Tolson: Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 9:11 AM
Change is a concept that refers to making or becoming different than what came before. Change is anactivitythat requires deliberate steps toward transformation. We have to be conscious about changes that lead to a different way of being.
I’d been allowing bits and pieces of myself to be swept away. I wanted to trek through the wasteland that was my life toward more fertile ground. I wanted to take charge of my life, to be accountable to myself and responsible toward others. I wanted to change
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