Changing Seasons

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Learn more about our life situation in this brief article. It's been tough recently, but not entirely bleak. Find out why in...

CHANGING SEASONS
 Discovering the bittersweet nature of sorrow

http://www.testimonymag.com/testimonymag/oct07.htm



NOTE: In the next issue of the Testimony magazine (Nov.) my wife, Joy, will write from her perspective. Don't miss it!

P.S. Please pass along to your friends. Our humble hope is that someone will find it helpful.

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