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    Valentine's Tribute: How Loving a Woman is Like Loving God
    Paul Cummins
    • Jan 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Valentine's Tribute: How Loving a Woman is Like Loving God

    The main message is to embrace the mystery and believe in each other. Hope you have fun with this! How Loving a Woman is Like Loving God (or, Is Being a Husband a Spectator Sport?) by Paul Cummins MYSTERY: This is the big one. Don’t try too hard to figure it out nor ask anyone else to try and explain it. It won’t help. REVELATION: The message you thought you heard may not have been what was meant. Oh well… SACRIFICE: You can do everything right and still be wrong, you kno
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    New Story: Not Up to Code
    Paul Cummins
    • Oct 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    New Story: Not Up to Code

    Do we all try to make our jobs sound more exciting than they are? Or does every venturing out provide the opportunity for intrigue and excitement? Perhaps it's just a matter of attitude. But, as we all know, strange things happen in the nation's capitial all the time...so why not a mild mannered home inspector surrounded by spies? Just have fun with it. There are some guy-recipes included as well as hope for more interfaith and international cooperation. Image below is
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    Whatever happened to the Virgin Mary?
    Paul Cummins
    • Nov 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    Whatever happened to the Virgin Mary?

    Surely she had a tremendous influence on the early church. Mary had a perspective unique to all humanity. None of it would have transpired had she not said ,"Yes." This holiday season I offer my conception of what may have happened right here for free. The best review I got for this story was when a 90 year old woman said it helped her to understand Scripture for the first time. God bless us, every one. Click on image for book. #PaulAuthor
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    Paul Cummins
    • Aug 3, 2017
    • 1 min

    Everything You Missed in Science Class!

    People often comment on my background as a science teacher during inspections: talking about adiabatic cooling while we're looking at the air conditioner, joking about my demeanor reminding them of their middle school science teacher, saying they appreciate how I follow up on problems I can't solve in the moment. Fact is I LOVE science and sharing that love. After I left teaching I wrote a summary of most of the things I taught in a comprehensive format paralleling the histo
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    Holidays are Complicated
    Paul Cummins
    • Dec 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    Holidays are Complicated

    They bring families together and remind us older folks of what we've lost and our current imperfections. Christmas always sent my Jewish roomate's family to Florida to avoid carols and decorations. My Muslim friends generally stay put. This is a tree on a music box that was made by a friend of my mother's before I was born. I used to blow on the whistle visible about a third of the way up. It is my most nostalgic Christmas item and plays Oh Come All Ye Faithful, which isn
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