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Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Light shines. Darkness no match🙂

Julie Ainger

God Never Stops!Welcome!Limited possibilities.Shepherd struggles in the face and faces of hardship.Magi-inspired themes of life and the face and faces of a long journey.Ordinary people. Run-of-the-mill problems.Extraordinary people. Seemingly impossible obstacles to overcome.God Never Stops.(pf)This is a good thing to know at the start of a day, at the start of the New Year. As has been noted from time to time, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.☺️Who better and what actions are better than His? I think you may be hard pressed to fi...

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Don’t call me. I’ll call you.

Julie Ainger

Routine.Run of the Mill.Don’t call me.I’ll call you.Don’t ring me.I’ll ring you.Routine.Cut-and-dried.Wait five minutes.Wait thirty minutes.Wait one hour.Conflict resolution is similar to the New Year’s ones we endeavor to make with the whispering knowing in the back of our ear knowingly chuckling and saying, “I give it three weeks.”Will power is powerful when there is a will and a way. Otherwise it is just another “plan.” An un-executed plan.Inevitably, someone or something will come along that is“better.”The want, the need, fades in time. ...

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Eye Candy

Julie Ainger

Like. Curb appeal, it may get you in the door.Like. Beauty, it may get you in the door.Like. Twinkling stars and colorful lights, it may get you in the door.Once the excitement of the moment has passed.What gets us on the straight and narrow path?Today. Of all days is a, the and sometimes, a new beginning of resolutions and promises, coaxes and constant displays of our ongoing weaknesses.Wet January.Dry January.Low sugar.No sugar.Cut sugar in half.Don’t eat meat.Do eat meat.Dont’ eat chips.Do eat chips. 🖋️What gets us to the end of the line?...

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The more things change………..

Julie Ainger

The more things change, the more they stay the same.Yes. And. No.Progress has a way of testing our mettle. Suffice to say, intentions and motivations are, at times, one and the same, or two of the same. Or not.When the going gets tough, the tough get going. What this may mean is different things at different times. One man’s pulled tooth is another man’s treasure. Hey. I did not make the rules. Adhering to them is both a test of discipline and fortitude. Whatever happens in the middle or the meantime is anybody’s guess.Which brings us to the...

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One Old Soul.

Julie Ainger

Today is the day!Say “Yes” to Yeshua!He is here!He is the center, the up, the down, the periphery.He not only takes the mess out of our lives, He is the Messiah—friend of all and enemy to none. He abhors the violence He endured for our sins when they publicly crucified Him in the court of public opinion and the disagreements of the courts behind closed doors.He is born. Again. Today is His birthday.🎂Who we exchange time and tethers and tokens with today is because of the blessings he bestowed upon us. Frankly, because at this time every year...

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Tenacious Diaphaneity

Julie Ainger

Fashionistas beware.What you may think we are talking about isn’t really what we are talking about. What you think you can see through is really just a mirage. What you think you know, isn’t what it seems. The veil of truth and justice.Huh?Life can be a beautiful puzzle. If we take a quiet moment and do not try to “cram” all that is necessary into all that is needed.Huh?Life is a puzzle. (sa). Life can be many pieces of a puzzle that cause us to wonder about the wonderful. To wander about trying to piece “it” all together.A puzzle.A puzzle i...

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Locus of constant sum

Julie Ainger

Your mission. Should you dare to accept:Squaring the circle.Hint and/or Hypothesis:Improbable?Probably impossible?Posssibly improbable?Improbably impossible.You get the drift.The problemo.The challenge: Constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge.🤣Having fun yet?😉The solution transcends time and space. Space and time. There is rationality to the equation’s answer.And.The answer is usually staring at us right in the face.Smack dab in the face of the obvious.Sm...

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Mysterious Ways

Julie Ainger

There is a piece of advice we are told throughout our lives. At family gatherings, social functions and everyday life interactions.”Do not argue politics and religion.”Why?Among the laundry list of reasons not to, there lies the question of enforcement. Of differences of opinions. Heated debates and spirited discussions do not always gel well together. Burn out.Social JusticeLifeHealthThe cloak of protection.Mi Madre. Tu Madre.Tomatoe TomatoPotatoe PotatoA rose by any other name.In the long run, the cloak of protection is an unwavering belie...

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Revenge is a dish best served frozen😉

Julie Ainger

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Numb.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Bumb.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Slum.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Crumb.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.Dumb.Suffice it to say.One man’s trash is another’s man’s treasure.And,One side of the globe is hot, while the other side is cold.Night is day.Day is night.Comparisons are difficult.As are preferences.“Just as courage takes its stand BY others in challenging situations, so compassion takes its stand WITH others in their distress. (wjb)Our need. Is real. How we approach the remedy for angst is also real. Projection becomes a self ful...

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Solidarity and Solid Clarity.

Julie Ainger

Let your conscience be your guide.Solidarity.Solid.Clarity.Solid Clarity.Yes.Wonder and emotion converses with cooperation for salvation. (pf).Yes.I will help.Yes.I will carry.Yes.Even if and when at times when I am called to the center of history,it hurts.Called to carry the weight of the world.Yes.Destiny placed in good hands.(pf)Immaculate entirely with the service of God. No resistance. Nothing that opposes truth and charity.Yes.Immaculate gives us our salvation.It is a mystery. Yes. Life is a mystery. Yes.This life down here, our lives ...

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Pardon me boys? Is that the cat who chewed your new shoe…..?

Julie Ainger

I think most all of us are guilty.Of hearing what we want to hear.Instead of what we need to hear.Inconvenient truths run rampant in The Land of Ego-ria.We are so, so certain we are right. We can only hear that you are wrong.Rose-colored glasses a perfect fit? Or. Rose colored glasses be damned.No need to worry about smelling the rat when the mice have all been eaten. Alive.As humans, we stupidly resort to less than honorable tactics. We bob and weave, duck and hide, belly up to the bar, all in an effort to escape. Most of the time, from our...

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Clue-y and the cues

Julie Ainger

Stay awakeBe alertThe answer is right in front of you.Hope.I know. I know. Some of us run for the hill at the mere thought. And. so did Clue-y. Clue-y was getting tired, exhausted even.He tells us for our hearts to not grow drowsy. Cluey does, run for the hills, in moments of despair and fear and worry. Instead of patiently awaiting for the Son of Man. Clue-y runs in circles, like a hamster on a hamster wheel and instead of productivity with a cheerful heart, he runs himself ragged. When justice is not handle properly in the first place it c...

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Hands in the cookie jar

Julie Ainger

Yum. Yum. Yum.The only telling sign?Crumbs.Cut to size. Cut to purpose. Altered states. Altered to make it suitable for a particular purpose. (cd) Anybody’s guess. Anybody’s guise. Humbled but not yet enough to admit wrongdoing. In purgatorial holding until one or another-breaks. Broken into pieces. Broken down to size. To fit other deserving or undeserving.Be cursed with, be cut to size.Starved.With the charm of a wink and a smile, a batted-eye blink and contributing confining bile. Encouraged by the encouragement of the enemy, the frenemy...

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The one that got away

Julie Ainger

Handwritten honesty. Came one day. Years later. In the form of an admission of guilt, wrongdoing. A cry for help. Too late for some. Just in time for others. The words on the crisp, white paper meant that the past occurred. No denial of the facts could erase the possibility of a reconciliation.The only way out was to run. No one was listening anyway. Was the letter of words on a page of paper an attempt to get to the “bottom” of it. Or an attempt to right the wrongs when no one else would listed to the hurt. To the silence of what was. And. ...

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The Outcast. It takes two to tango.

Julie Ainger

Rules are made to be broken.Injustice breaks the rules.Courage rebuilds them.Inclusively. Of course. What is good for the goose is good for the gander, eh? Over reach has its ways of embedment, triangulation, enmeshment. What is good for thee is not for me. Maybe. Maybe not.Right? I thought so.Or. I thought not.Do the crime. Do the time and other non denominational ways of proving a point. Proving the proof is in the pudding. The gloppy and sloppy pudding. Drippy, sippy and yum, yum, yum.Sometimes the truth is not found easily.Sometimes it i...

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