January 2023

January is National Blood Donor Month

Upcoming local bloodmobile dates give opportunity to help January is National Blood Donor Month - not only a time the American Red Cross designates for celebrating those who donate blood, but also to raise awareness for the constant need for blood donations. “We are really grateful to those people [who donate blood] because we’re working all the time to ensure a stable blood supply,” says American Red Cross Minnesota and Dakotas region Communications Manager Sue Thesenga.

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“I waited patiently for the Lord.” (Psalm 40:1)

I had felt that nudge, that tugging on my gut before. The nudge that is commonly referred to as a call from God. I was going to push it aside again, like I had before. It just wasn’t the right time. I was doing well in my current career, maybe I was just hungry. But this time, that tugging didn’t go away. I was compelled to dig in and see what was possible to make this “plan of God’s” happen. After I had given it a lot of thought, gone through the pros and cons, prayed on it over and over, I “told God” I would be ready for this in about a year, but I couldn’t see how that was going to work out in “my plans” of what I wanted to do. I got anxious. I didn’t know how to make what I thought I should do really happen. I got impatient. That tugging was there, but I was becoming unsure.

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Beyond Reason

To write about a thing, like, say, I don’t know, hypothetically, an ode, you might really want to have an intimate knowledge of the thing. Or perhaps you might want to really get to know thing, so you spend hours and days and weeks researching the thing. Or you might chat with experts, folks that spend their life studying the vicissitudes of the thing.

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Live Well, Age Wisely:

When I was first learning about Medicare, I found the name Part C very confusing. When a person is first enrolling in Medicare, they sign up for Parts A and B through the Social Security Administration.

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Clarkfield

Sons of Norway will meet at the Kilowatt Center in Granite Falls for a Potluck at noon on Sat. Jan.

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