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Summer Plans
We are on the doorstep of summer. I have always been a bit of a reluctant summer planner. I don’t like to feel locked in or like I am so...
Finding the Everyday Courage You Need to Live
"Give me the courage to live! Really live" Howard Thurman I had two surprising things happen to me yesterday. First, someone shook my...
How You Go About Things
“In commencement addresses people admonish us: take risks. Be willing to fail… We do want people to take risks, to strive for difficult...
Being Available
When our children were very small I reached out to a neighbor for help with something. I still remember her response, “I would be happy...
Living Like Easter People
How do you take the reality of Easter and make it real in your own life? Matthew tells us what the women did when they discovered that...
A Practice for Living Well
The moist and cool soil felt alive as I ran my fingers through it. I dug up a mum that had provided an interesting dome under the snow...
Recognizing the Risen Lord
After Jesus died on the cross and had been buried for three days, stories began to circulate that his tomb was empty. Some reported that...
Making Time for Rest
“The mind that comes to rest is tended in ways that it cannot intend” Wendell Berry I learned of a part-time job through a post on a...
The Power of Your Thinking
“The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.” Dallas...
Growing Resilience
“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” Alain de Botton I’ve been thinking about olive trees recently. One morning while...
Finding Hope in the Quiet
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." Theodore Roethke It’s been a winter wonderland around where I live this past month. I...
A Quiet Peace
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” Aristotle I have been thinking about the cold....
Give Me an A
"Comparison is the thief of joy." Theodore Roosevelt I recently learned of Benjamin Zander, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic...
Inhabit the Moment
"I give thanks for arriving safely in a new dawn. For the gift of eyes to see the world, the gift of mind to feel at home in my life." *...
Making a Change
“Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face; and one does not know it.” Virginia Woolf Change is...
Your Thoughts Matter
“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.” Proverbs 4:23 NCV Have you heard the story about the two marketing...
Standouts 2020
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which...
The Light Within
"what is essential is invisible to the eye" Antoine de Saint-Exupery I encountered the magic of fireflies for the first time in my late...
Your View of the World
There is something that is easy to miss as we go about our day. God is with us and at work all around us. If we go to the highest...
Firefly Facts
Fireflies are sometimes considered a symbol of illumination. Fireflies are members of the Lampyridae family of beetles. (lampyridae in...
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