Vero's Voice Magazine Issue 158 March 2024

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inside: on the cover:

6 Gaining a Voice – One Letter at a Time 14 Voices of Vero: If you could have a positive impact on young people, what would you want to teach them?

18 Voices of Vero: Growing up, who was your favorite band and why?

20 Movie Review: Book Club: The Next Chapter 22 Recipes: Holiday Delights 24 TC Stylist: Trinkets & Objects that add character to your home 26 Mind Games 28 Encouraging Words

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oller coasters were invented in the 1880’s to distract Americans from sin. A hosiery businessman hated that Americans were tempted by places like saloons and brothels so he built America’s first roller coaster in Coney Island to give New Yorkers some good clean fun.

It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.

The Empire State Building has its own ZIP code – 10118.

Lobsters taste with their feet. There are tiny bristles inside lobster’s pincers that function as taste buds. Their teeth are in one of their three stomachs.

In the Philippines McDonald’s serves spaghetti.

PEZ candy was invented to help smokers quit.

Bleach expires.

Froot Loops are all the same flavor.

A flock of ravens is called an “unkindness.”

They’re also called a “conspiracy or “treachery’,” also creepy.

Dunce caps used to be signs of intelligence. In the 13th century it was believed that a pointed cap would spread knowledge from its tip to the brain.

Scotland has more than 400 words for snow.

“Albert Einstein” is an anagram for “ten elite brains.”

Who figured that out?

3 Musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors. The original 3 Musketeers bars in the 1930s came in threepacks with a different nougat flavor in each - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. Because of rationing in World War II, they cut back to one.

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orking on the Sistine Chapel was so unpleasant that Michelangelo, also a gifted poet, wrote to a friend about his misery. A few lines …

I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison) My stomach’s squashed under my chin, my beard’s pointing at heaven, my brain’s crushed in a casket, my breast twists like a harpy’s. My brush, above me all the time, dribbles paint so my face makes a fine floor for droppings!

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Gaining a Voice – One Letter at a Time

by Caterina Schwinn

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hat do we have to lose? It’s what I’d Spellers Center in Tampa. The motto here is “presume told myself countless times as my competence.” The greater harm comes when we don’t. It daughter and I prepared for our trek makes complete sense to me although, to be honest, I am across the state to begin our spelling-tostill not fully convinced Olivia will succeed at this given communicate training in Tampa. We live in Melbourne her enormous sensory challenges.

Beach, so the three-hour drive was the trivial part of this I also have no real grasp of her intelligence. Every potentially life-altering journey. test or developmental measurement she’s had in life My daughter Olivia is 17 and has autism. She required her to speak or point to an object or circle also has limited verbal skills and no real way reliably. They all went poorly. Practitioners to express her thoughts, feelings, and of the Spellers Method believe that is due “When deepest desires. Yes, we’ve tried many to an apraxia disorder in the brain - the she asks Olivia things: Applied Behavioral Analysis, inability to speak or do something on to spell ‘American occupational and physical therapy, demand accurately. years of speech therapy, Picture Our session begins with Dana revolution’, a smile Exchange System, and an AAC Johnson, the occupational therapist comes across my device (Augmentative and Alternative with a Ph.D. who is one of the pioneers daughter’s face Communication), which she still uses in the method. Olivia is completely for basic communication. It’s mostly to dysregulated and yelling. Dana reads a and she spells it express the “I wants” but she often gets history lesson on Benjamin Franklin in a correctly.” stuck replaying the lists of friends’ names voice so low it’s hard to hear anything she’s and her favorite places. saying. She then has Olivia sit down and asks Perseveration: It’s one of the frustrations of her to spell “scientist.” She struggles to get calm Autism. I want more for her. She wants more. A mother’s but eventually does. There are several pokes of the wrong instinct knows it, especially as I’ve witnessed her letter, but Olivia spells most of the word accurately. desperately trying to join in conversation with peers, only When she asks Olivia to spell “American revolution”, able to utter a misplaced word or two. So when I heard a smile comes across my daughter’s face and she spells about a method called Spelling to Communicate, or S2C, it correctly. It helps that she is obsessed with the from an Autism community in Jacksonville, I immediately musical Hamilton. sought out every bit of information I could find.

Continued next page I watched the recently-released movie called Spellers. It’s a documentary that highlights the Spellers Centers in Tampa and San Diego and profiles several teenagers and young adults with autism who have learned to communicate and release their profound intelligent voices through spelling on an alphabet board. Some of them, eventually, are able to type independently on a keyboard. I signed up for an eightweek virtual course to understand this method and how a letter stencil board could change so much.

Fast-forward a few months later and we’ve arrived at our first intensive training session at the March 2024 / ISSUE 158 / VerosVoice.com

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Wow she was listening throughout all of Primary Election that dysregulation!

And she’s smart. The proof comes over the rest of our intensive threeday sessions.

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7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. makes precise eye March While in the waiting Election Day 5pm control very difficult. we hope for open room at the Spellers You must vote at your home polling location Dana gives Olivia a Center, I noticed a boy on Election Day VoteIndianRiver.gov communication.” few verbal prompts, with Down’s syndrome (772) 226-4700 such as “eyes on in a wheelchair. His VoteIndianRiver.gov 772-226-4700 4375 43rd Avenue Vero, Beach, FL 32967 the board” and mother tells me they “get it, get it, drove all the way over get it” as she’s from Houston to learn moving hesitantly to the next letter. She the method so their son could have a voice. also uses her hand to help Olivia’s eyes Another parent, like myself, who knows focus on the board by holding her hand there is more to a dysregulated body than 8am-4pm above or below it. For now, the prompting meets the eye.

• Supervisor of Elections Office is essential to help Olivia stay focused on Hope springs eternal. There are • Sebastian City Hall the alphabet board. detractors, mainly from speech and • Vero Beach Main Library Eventually, when the prompting language pathologists and ABA fades and Olivia is accurately pointing practitioners who claim the method has at the 26-letter board, we hope for open been debunked and that the instructor communication. That golden moment is is influencing the speller. I know what when the speller is able to spell out their I witnessed. I saw my daughter make own thoughts and feelings. It may take a independent movements to the correct while to get there, but I now believe we letters. It is just the beginning of a long 7am-7pm will. I have seen too much proof of her journey ahead, but we will get there, one intelligence to stop. letter at a time.

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VOICES OF VERO

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If you could have a

positive impact on a group of people, what would you want to teach them?

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Respect! Nowadays the younger people act discourteous and show now no respect to others.

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I would love to to teach about kindness. We must all look out for each other. Too many people are selfish in their ways.

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Healthy eating. Too many people overindulge in foods filled with sugar, salt and carbohydrates.

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Pay attention to current events, pay attention to our country, pay attention to your neighbors, while always maintaining a positive attitude and a great sense of humor.

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I would teach them how to properly use a condom.

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I would love to teach love and kindness!

Grab each day because you never know what each day may bring.

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I would teach appreciation. We all need to be appreciative each and every day!

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I would love to teach true history.

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I would teach and stress the importance of a good education.

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Don’t be so fast to go to war!

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I would teach about happiness and the importance of loving yourself and doing what makes you happy without worrying about the opinions of others.

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VOICES OF VERO

by Steve Glaser

Growing up, who was your

favorite band and why?

Slipknot. Heavy and aggressive music makes my heart smile and helps keep my sanity.

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Michael Jackson. He was the best dancer ever! He was handsome and most young girls had a crush on him.

Everyone wanted to dress like him. His songs kept us dancing and we all wanted to dance like him.

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I grew up listening to “Gunster” especially their “Lost & Gone Forever” album.

It was the music that my two older brothers and I shared together. So many wonderful memories on family trips singing together their music.

Hoping to be at the Red Rocks in August to see them live with my two brothers.

Pastor Trevor Raborn

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a d n e e gr Spice Girls and Linkin Park! They were both very innovative and I felt so free listening to their music.

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Way back when, I loved the Doobie Brothers. Their sound was a mixture of rock and blues, two of my favorite genres. Plus, I always had a crush on Michael MacDonald.

He was easy to look at and had such a sultry voice.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd. My older sister Kathleen took me to see them performing in Madison Square Garden. She was babysitting me when I was thirteen and this was my first concert.

I loved their performance, music and lyrics.

Led Zeppelin! John Bingham was their drummer and he was the best! Although classified as hard rock, I always loved the blues element in their music.

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I grew up in Southern California and was in elementary school when MTV was launched and I became exposed to hundreds of bands. I loved Van Halen, Rush, Genesis, Pat Benatar, and Def Leppard, but my favorite was The Who. I always loved their amazing, interesting, and unique sound.

It’s so hard to pinpoint a favorite. During the mid to late eighties, songs were about guitar solos and ballads. Then rap, hip hop and R&B became popular. Back in my senior year of high school, I tried to get Green Day. “Time Of Your Life” was our senior class song.

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The Carpenters! I loved their sound and her voice. I grew up singing her songs. It was a great tragedy when she died …. so Karen.

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The boy band NSYNC! They were dreamy and fun!

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REVIEWS Book Club: The Next Chapter

At first they were all excited to go.

As the days pass one by one each one finds a reason to back out. The first excuse was the funniest, I must say.

RATED PG Sharon couldn’t go because of her bird. He was her primary commitment.

by Del Bates Sadly, he got ill and died and she was f you’re looking for a cute romantic comedy free as a bird to go! with great iconic actors in one movie, the Diane’s boyfriend, Mitchell (Andy Book Club: The Next Chapter is it. This García), encouraged her. It’s the trip of feature hits the target audience with four a lifetime. Go enjoy with your friends. mid-life forever friends starring Jane Fonda, Vivian’s fiancé Arthur (Don Johnson) Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburencourages her he will be okay, she gen, Don Johnson, and Andy Garcia. needs to go. Soon, they were ItaThe story is about four high school friends ly-bound. who never lost touch. The movie opens with Rome is everything and more than screens of Zoom chats they shared during their they expected. The food, the men, COVID hibernation. the sites, and the shopping. Little As the COVID ban is lifted, the group is did they know what they were in for excited to reunite—in a great place: Carol’s when entering a bridal shop they just (Mary Steenburgen) kitchen. One by one, they happened to pass by. The entertaining enter with long-awaited hugs. Sharon (Candice owner catered to each of their fancies Bergen), who retired as a judge during COVID, as they put on a fun fashion show. But strolls in first. Next is Diane (Diane Keaton), now Vivian hit the jackpot. Yep, she found in a new relationship but still grieving the loss of the perfect wedding gown for her her late husband who passed years ago. Lastly, special day.

Vivian (Jane Fonda) enters with her typical Nonchalantly, while sightseeing, grand entrance. a stranger convinces them they must see Venice, the city of love. What do they have to lose?

Quickly, she whisks off her white glove Sounds romantic, right? Well, until they decide to take the train and realize, “Oh, no! Our luggage and extends her left hand to show a dazzling was stolen by the guys posing as porters at the train station! Thieves!” diamond. “I’m finally engaged!” she announces.

Twists, turns, and more mishaps bring laughs and truths to each other. You can’t help but Her friends are beyond excited for Vivian to enjoy the crazy things that happen. I can recall a few of my own. finally take the plunge. I was excited for her, too, nly Diane was aware of the surprise planned by Vivian’s fiancé and she realizes the clock since she was in her seventies and had never is ticking. They must leave Venice to get to Tuscany. Fearing losing their newly-purmarried. chased luggage again if they took the train, they rented a car and hit the road. But who The fun begins when Carol recalls a time could imagine they’d get a flat in the middle of nowhere? As the rubber meets the road they planned to take a trip to Italy. Suddenly, (pun intended), stress threatens to ruin their final days until Diane spills the beans. she has a brainstorm. “The travel ban from “Vivian!” she shouts, “Your fiancé is waiting in Tuscany for us where he has planned a surprise COVID is lifted. At last we can take that trip wedding!” The comedy of errors continues throughout the trip right up to the altar. to Italy. Let’s make it a bachelorette party for Grab your popcorn and favorite drink. I know you’ll enjoy the surprise ending as much as I did.

Vivian!”

Seeing these actors who created lasting memories in years gone by will leave new ones in your heart in this new chapter of their lives. Enjoy!

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love the bright spring flavors in this cake, but sometimes there’s just no time to bake from scratch. If you want to try a “nest” cake for Easter, substitute your favorite boxed cake, baked in a bundt pan, frosted with white icing. Pick flavors that complement the coconut “nest.” Use the Topping ingredients, follow Step 1, and before serving fill the cake with the candies.

LEMON COCONUT EASTER CAKE A lemon coconut bundt cake decorated like a nest with toasted coconut, topped with lemon cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut flakes … filled with candy-coated chocolate eggs.

INGREDIENTS Topping 1 and 1/2 cups (150g) sweetened flaked coconut 1–2 cups candy-coated chocolate eggs (Hershey’s or Cadbury Mini Eggs) Cake 3 cups (360g) cake flour (spooned & leveled) 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1 and 3/4 cups (350g) granulated sugar 1 heaping Tablespoon lemon zest 1/2 cup (120ml) vegetable oil 5 large eggs, at room temperature 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon coconut extract 1/2 cup (120g) full-fat sour cream or plain yogurt, at room temperature 2/3 cup (180ml) whole milk, at room temperature 1/4 cup (60ml) fresh lemon juice 1 cup (100g) sweetened flaked coconut * Frosting 8 ounces full-fat brick cream cheese, softened to room temperature 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 2 cups (240g) powdered sugar 1–2 Tablespoons (15–30ml) fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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INSTRUCTIONS 1. For the topping Lightly toast about 3/4 cup sweetened coconut flakes to achieve the “nest” look. Spread the coconut on an ungreased baking sheet and toast at 325 degrees 5-10 minutes, until golden brown. Cool completely before using. You’ll use half toasted, half untoasted on the cake.

2. For the cake Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease a large 10-12 cup Bundt pan.

3. Whisk the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.

4. In a large bowl, beat the butter on high speed until creamy, about 1 minute.

Add the sugar and lemon zest and beat on high for 3–4 minutes until creamed.

Scrape the sides as needed. Add the oil and mix on medium speed to combine.

With the mixer running on low speed, add the eggs one at a time, then add sour cream and the vanilla and coconut extracts. Beat on medium-high speed until combined, scraping down the sides and bottom as needed.

5. Whisk the lemon juice and milk together.

6. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients in 3 additions, alternating with the lemon-milk mixture, and mixing after each addition

until just incorporated. Do not overmix. Fold in the coconut.

7. Pour evenly into your Bundt pan and bake for 55–65 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. (If the top is browning too quickly, loosely cover with aluminum foil.)

8. Cool cake for 2 hours in the pan, and then invert onto a serving plate. Cool completely before decorating.

9. For the frosting In a large bowl beat the cream cheese and butter on medium speed until smooth, about 2 minutes. On low speed, add powdered sugar, 1 Tablespoon lemon juice and vanilla extract. Increase to high speed and beat for 3 minutes. Add 1 more Tablespoon of lemon juice to thin out, if desired. Frost the cooled cake.

10. Top with a combination of toasted shredded coconut and fill the hole in the center of the cake with candycoated chocolate eggs.

11. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve, up to 24 hours. If the cake has been refrigerated for longer than an hour, let it sit out at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving, to soften up.

12. Store covered cake in the refrigerator up to 5 days.

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RICE KRISPIES EASTER EGGS

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You’ll need nonstick cooking spray, plastic Easter eggs, and 3 cardboard egg carton halves. Kids of all ages love them.

Makes 32 INGREDIENTS 4 tablespoons butter 1 10-ounce package mini marshmallows 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional) Pinch of salt (optional) 6 cups Rice Krispies or other puffed rice cereal 1/3 cup small t sprinkles, assorted pastel spring colors

DIRECTIONS 1. In large saucepan melt the butter over low heat. Add the marshmallows, almond extract, and salt. Stir continuously until the marshmallows are completely melted. Remove from heat.

2. Add the rice cereal and half the nonpareils and stir until well coated.

3. Working quickly, spray the inside of a plastic Easter egg with nonstick cooking spray. Spray your hands and stuff each side of the Easter egg with the puffed rice mixture so it comes slightly out of each half.

Press the two sides together firmly to seal the egg.

Open the egg and gently remove the Rice Krispies treat egg. Dip the top of the egg into the bowl of mixed sprinkles and then place it in an empty slot in the egg carton.

4. Repeat the process with the rest of the mixture, spraying the eggs and your hands as needed with cooking spray.

Notes: Keeps two days at room temperature in an airtight container. To freeze, cover the eggs in Glad freezer wrap and freeze in an airtight container up to 6 weeks. Let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes before serving.

Here’s one for St. Patrick’s Day! IRISH APPLE CAKE An authentic old-fashioned Irish apple cake with tart apples and a streusel topping. If you like coffee cake, you’ll love this. Delicious warm out of the oven with a sprinkling of powdered sugar or served with the traditional custard sauce – which is amazing drizzled over just about anything!

INGREDIENTS Streusel topping 3/4 cup (105 g) all-purpose flour 1/2 cup (115 g) granulated sugar 1/4 cup (21 g) rolled oats 1/8 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons cold butter, cubed Cake 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup (115 g) granulated sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/4 cups (177 g) all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons whole milk 3 medium Granny Smith or Honeycrisp apples, peeled and thinly sliced Custard Sauce 5 large egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar 1 3/4 cup half and half 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste INSTRUCTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and line a 9-inch baking pan with parchment.

2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar, oats and salt. Using your finger tips, rub in the cold butter until you’ve reached the texture of coarse breadcrumbs. Cover and refrigerate.

3. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

4. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until combined.

Stir in the vanilla.

5. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.

6. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet along with the milk, and stir until combined.

7. Spread evenly into your cake pan and top with the sliced apples in one even layer.

10. Meanwhile, make the custard sauce. In a medium bowl, vigorously whisk egg yolks and 1/4 cup sugar until sugar is dissolved and is lightened in color, about 1 minute.

Place a fine-mesh sieve over another empty medium bowl and set aside.

11. In a medium saucepan, over mediumlow heat, heat the half and half, salt, and remaining 1/4 cup sugar, stirring frequently, until steaming. Do not boil.

12. Whisking constantly, pour about a cup of warm half and half mixture into the egg mixture. Add the warm egg mixture back into the remaining half and half mixture, whisking to combine. Cook until it starts to thicken and coat the back of your spoon, 2-3 minutes, 175-180 degrees.

8. Cover the apples with the streusel topping. Press 13. Immediately pour the mixture through the down gently with your hand. sieve and stir in the vanilla. When cooled to room temperature, place plastic wrap 9. Bake 65-75 minutes, until the top is golden directly on sauce and refrigerate. brown all over and crisp. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before turning out of the pan, streusel side up.

14. Store the cake in an airtight container at room temperature up to 4 days.

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PERCEPTION Answer the following two questions after studying the grid for five seconds: Which color appears least frequently in the grid?

Which color appears most frequently in the grid?

SUDOKU The aim with Sudoku is to place the numbers 1-9 exactly once in each region and in each row.

ENGLISH REASONING LOGIC RIDDLE A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a re-breathing dragon. How does the man escape?

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Change one letter of the top four-letter word to create a new word below.

Continue the process, ending with the word on the bottom rung.

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ENCOURAGING

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Because of that prudent track record, we’ve moved beyond faith with our thoughts about gravity. We believe in it. We don’t doubt that in this world without an outside power source, what goes up will eventually come down. We can’t see gravity, but we can see it work. We can’t taste it, touch it, smell it, or hear gravity; yet we know it to exist.

Trust is faith with a track record. When we trust another person, it is usually because we have built up evidence of their reliability. Once trust is established, we become ready to believe. Belief is foundational because of the hard work involved in creating it. The track record is integral because repetition is how most of us learn.

Now, what about false beliefs? How did they come to exist? Clearly, the idea that we are unworthy or insignificant to the greater plan must be a lie.

Each one is designed specifically to use their gifts and talents to better the world.

Repetition is the agent of this sort of deceit.

When personal value is beaten down repetitively by someone we hold in authority, we may develop belief systems based on a different kind of record.

This faulty record comes from trusting a broken or fraudulent source. Reliability is replaced by authority, and we become afraid to challenge the messages even though our inner being knows the messages are untrue. This often happens when a person

in authority seeks power instead of loving relationship. Desiring control, the fraudulent source conditions the weaker one to deny their creational design and value. This denial of value is repeated over and over, and with repetition the lesson is learned.

When a belief is false, it must be challenged in the light of holy truth. For some of us, we will need help to untangle the cluster of lies on which we have built our lives. The work may be emotionally painful, but once completed it is profoundly emancipating. Each of us is an incredible child of Creation designed with gifts and talents necessary to make this world better. False beliefs impede this creational plan. hen we consider ideas like these, is there a small voice inside calling us to seek new understanding? Does hope erupt, with an almost fearful desire to find a new way of thinking and living? Don’t be afraid. If we identify with a broken past, there is help available to create a promising, positive future. We are not alone unless we choose that stance. There are many who have walked this road and have stayed to help other stragglers find their way to healing and wholeness.

That is the greatest hurdle to transformation.

Can you come to believe that you are a remarkable agent of goodness and truth? If that sounds difficult, will you believe that we believe? We are all around you, and we are willing to help. You’ll find us in churches, in 12 Step groups, in book clubs, in therapy offices, and in many other places you have hesitated to go.

Start your new track record today. Give hope legs and take a small action. Ask for help.

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PERCEPTION: Least: Pink Most: Gray LOGIC RIDDLE: He waits until nighttime and goes through the first door.

ENGLISH REASONING: Break

WORD WHEEL: Some of the words of 5 letters or more that can be made from the wheel include: machs, scams, mosks, harms, marks, macho, marcs, macks, macro, march, marsh, roams, masks, makos, shams, amoks, mocha, smash, smock, mocks, moras, smack, comas, chasm, scram crams, shmo, charm, charms, chroma, chasms, smacks, macros, schmos, scrams, machos, morass, mochas, smocks, chromas, shamrock, shamrocks

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ENCOURAGING WORDS CONTINUED

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Psalm 91

by Pastor Rich Ienuso

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he Passion of Christ is celebrated every Palm Sunday and has all the elements of a Greek tragedy, plus more.

It begins with Jesus’ joyful entry into Jerusalem as the long-awaited Messiah with an enthusiastic crowd throwing palms along His route. Then it switches to tragedy but does not end in tragedy like a Greek drama; it ends in victory. It is recorded in all the gospels and is more

sins of omission of those in authority who turn a blind eye to evils in our midst or fail to act in a timely manner Fr. Hugh Duffy to avoid dire disasters for people in their charge. The list is long. Think of the useless wars that have ravaged cultures, uprooted innocent people and laid waste to the infrastructures of entire

HOW OFTEN DO WE RUSH TO JUDGMENT BY CONDEMNING OTHERS OR BETRAYING THEIR TRUST? than a record of one individual’s suffering; it is a process through which all who call themselves Christians must go through.

We tend to see ourselves in this story only as sympathetic bystanders. But we are more than that: we are the judges, the betrayers, the cowardly disciples and the executioners. How often do we rush to judgment by condemning others or betraying their trust? How quickly are we ready to unleash a bitter tongue, a piercing remark, a snap judgment? How mercilessly do we find ourselves following the crowd, taking the easy way out and shirking our responsibility to follow Christ?

The sins of the judges, disciples and executioners for whom Christ died were not just the past sins of those who condemned Him over two thousand years ago. They are present-day sins which people commit daily. They are the

countries. These are also the sins of disinterested people who daily turn on each other, unleash a bitter tongue and refuse to forgive and see Christ in their neighbor.

Every year, as we celebrate Palm Sunday and the Passion of Christ we become part of a great drama. We recall how a master became a servant, how he humbled himself and yet was exalted above every other creature, how death was swallowed up in life, how he gave us his word, his example.

This is the story of Christ’s love for us.

This love is so great He sacrificed His life on the cross that we might do the same. “Greater love,” He said, “no man has than to lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).

Sacrifice and Love, all wrapped up in one, is Christ’s lasting gift of Palm Sunday.

–Fr. Hugh Duffy

This Psalm is a great one to read daily.

Pastor Rich Ienuso

Verse 1: When we dwell with the Lord, He keeps us.

Verse 2: The Lord protects us.

Verses 3-4: The Lord delivers us.

Verses 5-8: The Lord heals us.

Do not fear.

Verses 9-13: God’s angels watch over us.

Verses 14-16: The Lord blesses us with protection and a long life.

Read Psalm 91 daily. Trust Him and He will take good care of you.

He is on your side. Talk to Him today. He listens and answers.

What a Friend we have in Jesus!

Blessings, Pastor Rich

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