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I hope you will write many more millions of words!! 👏👏👏

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Beautiful points here David. I believe that when we don't follow our heart's calling, which can be manyfold, we lose our spark. They say depression comes from not doing enough of the things that makes your heart sing, that sparks joy in you. I believe that.

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Oct 30Liked by David Marlow

Following the heart fills my would as well. Thank you David

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Oct 29Liked by David Marlow

Nice reflections David and a quote I tend to live by as there are a few is > "To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction." - Stephen Covey The beginning lines is the one that says > To Begin with the end in mind! My end is a union with the one true and Triune God. So every decision I make is aligned with that. Like a builder with a blueprint for a structure it is laid out for the completion of a project. There are weather challenges, cost fluctuation, material alterations that may occur, a possible lost or interruption of the workforce and countless other things that come up....but the project manager must have the ultimate goal in mind even with modifications so he/she will get paid and even more so with ones soul in a union with God for eternity. Not a dream....a reality! All else is only scratching the surface or running with no end in mind just a feeling perhaps that needs to be felt again and again!

Aude rerum omnium veritatem cognoscere!

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I hear you, David: "The pain of not doing what we are called to do."

On occasion I play with the idea of finally putting Stories From Women Who Walk to rest. It will be 5 years old come 1st April 2025. Isn't that enough time to have been a podcaster?

Something like 1,200 episodes on the airwaves. Haven't I said enough?

You've given me pause to think about not just *what* I do, but Who I am - maybe the pain isn't so much the "not doing" as it is not being Who we are, or failing to evolve into Who we can be. Exercising our stories for the highest good.

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Oct 29Liked by David Marlow

Just Smitten, by Peter Stipan, October 29, 2024

Inspired, I write at will, pressing thoughts from head to quill

If singers love to sing and writers love to have written

Then my heart, my dear, as you know by now, with you is deeply smitten

Truth: your beauty starts inside of you, it radiates for all to see

For nothing can block your energy carried by your honesty

This love I have for you is real, beyond the words of what I feel

Struck by lightning

Swept off my feet

Light that’s ever brightening

Beyond honey most sweet

It feels like I have been bitten by love, by you, yes, bitten

Forever smiling because I am just smitten.

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Definitely love having exercised. Sometimes I actually enjoy being in the doing, and that's progress, to me.

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