Advent 2017

Here at MOPS, we know the joys and stresses of the Christmas season, and the many distractions that keep our families and ourselves from

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Contempt

I was sitting with my family in the studio waiting for our portrait sitting. Everything was running late and I had to be somewhere

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Those People

The nearly unthinkable happened last month: my 15-year-old went on his first date! We were out shopping for a new button-down dress shirt for

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Threads of Commonality

Symbolically, the heart has long been identified as the center of the body. It holds wisdom, reason, emotion. Islam, Judaism and Christianity all share

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Starring Sick Mom

Modern medicine didn’t cure me.  Treatment followed a few years after I was diagnosed, but instead of turning me back into a healthy, energetic

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