He openeth also their ear to discipline,
and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

— Job 36:10

Do, too, exercise, I told the skeptics at my health screening. I am highly-attuned to the habits of discipline. Observe:

“Fork to face: Up, in, out, down! Repeat!

“Snack drawer: Open, close! Open, close! Repeat!”

They weren’t buying it. They kept frowning.…

And God said, Behold,
I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.

— Gen. 1:29

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Behold, I will do a new thing;
now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.

— Isaiah 43:19

It all started when I was plotting my next move,

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Stand in awe, and sin not:
commune with your own heart upon your bed,
and be still. Selah.

— Psalm 4:4

We women have our own Homeland Security. It’s a deep, dark secret, a stash of ammunition brought out only in severe crisis mode.

It’s dark chocolate.

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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
so is a faithful messenger to them that send him:
for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

          — Proverbs 25:13

The worried husband had been through a lot that morning. He had had to call an ambulance to rush his wife of nearly 60 years to the hospital.

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