Posts Tagged Cfsp
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Present Circumstances
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” .......Nido Quebin According to his website (www.nidoquebin.com), “Dr. Nido Qubein came to the United States as a teenager with ...
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Weather…or Not?
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home The recent drought has certainly been fodder for many a conversation about the weather. Our early spring was truly magnificent and, as spring goes, fairly long-lived this year. Then suddenly, the switch flipped to summer and it has been hot...
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Remembering Well
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home As a young teenager, I longed for the freedom to drive the car. Growing up in a small town, there wasn’t always a lot to do; by the time I turned 16 and had my driver’s license, I was certain that there was a whole new world to explore....
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Peaks and Valleys
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home British author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) once noted, “One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” Not withstanding Chesterton’s prose, mountaintop views can be positively breathtaking; mountaintop ex...
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We can learn a lot from a tree
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Amid the monuments and the towering mature trees along a pleasant knoll at Oakdale Memorial Gardens, I had the privilege to share a few words with the family at a recent graveside service. The setting was beautiful. Nearby, an age-old...
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Awkward Parenting Decisions
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home One of the awkward parenting decisions that Linda and I made when our kids were young was that of outlawing video games in our home. Make no mistake: this did not make us too popular at times. And, it’s quite possible that many reading t...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Some of you may recall an article I wrote five years ago about our daughter, Madelyn, and the real-life drama that unfolded in our family back in March of 1998. She had become very anemic and lethargic, very uncharacteristic for an otherwis...
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Identity Theft . . . and Obituaries??
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Remember the good old days when the local newspaper and television station reported the news? They still do, of course…but now there’s a new little thing we call the “World Wide Web” that has stumbled upon the scene, and it has begu...
