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Dealing with death needs careful touch

Saturday 9 April 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

What do you do when someone learns they are going to die?

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Clear all that clutter, and become free

Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

At this season of my life, I have a longing for order and simplicity.

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Determination can conquer all

Saturday 20 February 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When I did a Virtues Pick for 2016, I received Determination.

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The most important job in the world

Saturday 13 February 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

As Oprah Winfrey once told me when I had the blessing of being on her television show with our first book, The Family Virtues Guide, parenting is the most important job in the world.

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Welcome back, students

Saturday 6 February 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

Welcome back to school, kids! is a message especially for you from Mama Virtues. If you don’t read yet, I hope your family will read this to you out loud.

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Virtues alive and well in paradise

Monday 18 January 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

This is part two of last week’s column on three virtues that will create real happiness in the New Year, based on a Jewish scripture from the Tanach, or Old Testament.

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Recognise those teachable moments

Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

After a virtues workshop, the programme director gifted me with a massage.

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Opening yourself to grace a wise move

Saturday 31 October 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

My friend Larry says, “You can’t hear yes if you don’t ask.”

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Island reminders in chilly British Columbia

Tuesday 27 October 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

On our journey overseas, we have travelled by ferry to Cormorant Island on Alert Bay in the Pacific. It is located in British Columbia on the west coast of Canada.

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Enviro Squad show that they care

Saturday 15 August 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

“Do you love it enough?” is a slogan of the Enviro Squad of Araura College on Aitutaki.

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Hope sheds light in dark places

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

On a recent cloudy Sunday, when I was driving with a friend to church, we suddenly saw a huge perfect rainbow, one end in the lagoon, the other arching to the other side of the island.

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Plan your dreams to come true

Saturday 2 May 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

Everybody needs a dream.

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Be kind to a really special person and give yourself a birthday present

Sunday 22 March 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

Have you ever given yourself a birthday present?

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Changing from violence to virtues

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When the Minister of Education for Yap, a small island country in the western Pacific, invited us to give a Virtues Project workshop for the community, I asked him to include a group of students.

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My visit to a very special person

Saturday 7 March 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

The best present we can offer anyone is the gift of our presence – our loving, focused, rapt attention.

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Create unity in the community

Sunday 8 February 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When I recently asked a friend who looked sad and down-hearted, “Pe’ea koe?” (How are you? in Cook Islands Maori), he gave me the automatic ‘fine, thank you’ or ‘Meitaki’.

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Virtues Important to feed children's souls

Saturday 31 January 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

Raising a child requires many skills and virtues.

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Virtues power spiritual warriors

Saturday 24 January 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When my husband Dan, brother John and I put together our first book, The Family Virtues Guide, we had a big dream; to help parents raise children who would be champions of virtue.

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Cleanliness next to Godliness

Sunday 18 January 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

In all the holy books of the world’s religions, there is a virtue that is named as a stepping stone to Paradise, bringing us “nearer my God to Thee.”

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Try a 'pace of grace' for 2015

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When I ask people how their holidays went, most say, ‘Too busy!’ or ‘I’m so tired.’

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