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“What makes life good is not a particular set of circumstances but how the heart interacts with them.” Tim Keller Like many families, we...

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a...

“Hope is joyous anticipation of good that is not yet here or is unseen.” Dallas Willard “The people walking In darkness have seen a great...

I was greeted by a man in a Santa hat when I went to pick up my car from the shop the other day. It was a damp, dreary, rainy day. His...

“It was in the season of Christmas that I came out of my little garden…and began to walk backwards through history to the place from...

A friend forwarded a photo to me of her 6 month old granddaughter. The essence of this little girl jumped out at me, her joyful smile...

“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.” Thomas Jefferson My Aunt Jeanie was different from my other aunts. She was tall...

“The best journey takes you home.”* Home. The word itself seems to call out to us. It’s good to be home. Home is the place where you...

The sound of silence is growing at our house as our children are becoming young adults. One of the things I sometimes miss is the sound...

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” Jill Churchill G.K. Chesterton once shared a delightful...

“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” C.S. Lewis1 Surely one of the marks of greatness is the longevity of one’s influence. Take the...

"To err is human; to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope Are you in tune? I went to a choir concert this past week. In order to be in tune...

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” Isa 5:20 We live in a time when things often seem very mixed up. Good is called evil and...

“Laugh and grow strong.” St. Ignatius of Loyola The other day I found myself gravitating to a certain checkout lady at a local grocery...

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost everyday, to just sit and think.” Warren Buffet There is something that we all need -...

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein Like most people, I tend to be a creature of habit. It’s natural...

I remember an experience I had at our local Department of Motor Vehicles. Now usually, this is a place that I am not too anxious to...

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."* I grew up in a small town across the street from a cornfield. We would watch the...

It’s time for a well. It’s time for a drink of life-giving water. In the midst of all the things that need to be done, in the midst of...

“For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does. Ps 33:4 I was joking around with someone yesterday. It just so...

The city had to remove some of our grass while working on a flood management project. They recently came to replace the dirt patches they...

Do you know how fast you are going? We drove to Canada last week-end. After a long wait to get across the border we found ourselves on a...

“Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” Richard Feyman I had something interesting happen to me...

One of the challenges of getting older is not the lines that begin to form on your forehead but lines that underline the names and needs...