Keeping Christ in Christmas (and other crazy notions)
LATEST NEWS FLASH: Employees told to say “Happy Holidays” only, and not to say “Merry Christmas” or face possible pink slips! Advent Calendars that depict anything about what Advent really is all...
View ArticleSorting through the Wrappings and Trappings of Another Year Gone By (part 1)
Today is the last day of the year 2012, and for me it always brings on tears. Tears that have that bittersweet sting to them. They always seem to bubble up and hit me on this particular morning every...
View ArticleSorting Through the Wrappings and Trappings of Another Year Gone By (part 2)
TODAY I prayed: “Lord show me today, this first day of this new year, what you would have for me. Inspire and guide me with your loving direction for today and for this year. Give me your heart and...
View ArticleSmall Things With Great Love–Part 1
Words are having a hard time coming to me lately. Usually I am full of them and have been known to rattle on repeating myself. But the events of the last few weeks have left me a bit on the empty...
View ArticleThe Answer
Clayzmama recently wrote in her blog, about the fact that she’d just discovered, “That there is more than the first four lines in Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous Serenity Prayer!” I knew this fact already,...
View ArticleSometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly
“Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly,” IS a quote you might hear often in the rooms of AA Meetings. It is a reference to the developing life of someone who is in recovery, learning to live a new life...
View ArticleWhat’s YOUR Question???
My Summer was a mix of ups and downs emotionally. I will say, I knew it wouldn’t be a lazy hazy summer full of picnics and lemonade, but when it...
View ArticleMore from the Backwards “L” Saga
“I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.” Jeremiah 33:6 They Say, it takes “twenty-one days a habit to make.” Well this my twentieth day of practicing the...
View ArticleAnd (again) more from the Backwards “L” Saga
“Wow! We didn’t see that one coming. After all hadn’t he said, ‘…only 4 months recovery?'” Last time I wrote I mentioned re-booking our Hawaii trip; which I did:))) And then: Re-booking and...
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