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Where’s the divine order in Sisto Malaspino’s death?

Where’s the divine order in Sisto Malaspino’s death?

Melbourne is shocked by the apparently random death of Sisto Malaspina of Pellegrini’s café in Bourke Street – murdered in the course of trying to help someone. Coming to grips with this shocking event reminds me of the process I went through in trying to understand...

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How is the child in you going?

How is the child in you going?

Years ago I read Getting the Love You Want by therapist and educator Harville Hendrix, and was really impressed. His book guides couples through a ten-week course designed to resolve their relationship problems. As the blurb on his book explains, Hendrix ‘shows how...

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Common Sense Skills for Schools – Managing Money

Common Sense Skills for Schools – Managing Money

I was stunned and deeply troubled recently to hear about a friend’s financial circumstances. From beginning married life with a $10,000 mortgage some twenty years ago, today she and her husband are burdened by a mortgage in the hundreds of thousands for the same...

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Post-traumatic GROWTH Syndrome!

Post-traumatic GROWTH Syndrome!

Have you heard about Leigh Sales’s new book? Any Ordinary Day is about the ABC TV host’s experiences in going from what she describes as a ‘charmed life’ to a string of crises that have left her feeling fearful about the future. First her uterus tore when she was...

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