Monthly Archives: April 2017

Dear Reader: Today I ended up on one of those writing expeditions where I started in one direction, got detoured to another, and then returned to the original plans…a whirlwind for sure…but quite satisfying! On days like this I just … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Kate Wolfe-Jenson, in her latest blog, discussed the importance of realizing that the ‘days of our lives’ are finite and we don’t have the luxury of dismissing any of them as trivial, while waiting for something ‘big’ to … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The older I get, the more I revel in “the simple and ordinary.” As I pointed out in yesterday’s blog I don’t believe our spiritual lives should be lived minimally (instead wide open to God’s calling) but I … Continue reading →

    Dear Reader: With our ‘Winnie the Pooh Blustery Day‘ yesterday I couldn’t help but think of all the joys and blessings that must be flying around us bringing delight to so many. These blessings definitely helped us get … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I came across a blessing that I really like…one I found and used several years ago, in fact, in one of my older blog posts. When I discovered it again yesterday I committed it to memory so I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday afternoon, as I sat down in front of the computer and thought about the day and what I was feeling…I suddenly heard the words in my head: “All Things Bright and Beautiful.”  “Exactly!” I thought to myself. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I was so excited yesterday when I saw the rain drops falling on my car window as I was running errands that I about wrecked the car. Rain…beautiful rain! I found myself, gleefully, sing-songing the little verse we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: What a beautiful thing morning is! Birds chirping, the sun peeping through the shutters, as the day calls us to come out and play! Or as Willie Nelson says: “I woke up this morning and I wasn’t dead … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday was a day for memories… celebrating family birthdays and soon-to-be weddings. These are times where we expect past memories to be triggered and pop up unexpectedly…but then sometimes it is the strangest things that take us back … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There is so much irony in life isn’t there? We spend so much of our childhood and youth longing to be grown up and have the freedom to do anything we like and go anywhere we wish…and then … Continue reading →