Holiday Family Time
During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. ~Katie Klise Are you in over your head yet? Have you worked yourself into a frenzy getting every last…
Trappings of the Season
"Baking is love made visible." I've got all the trappings of the season right on my spice rack! Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger! These three spices are for me like the trinity. And then add vanilla - a scent of pure…
Peaceful Comfort
"The place where...with all its dazzle and drumbeat met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort." ~ Laini Taylor Maryland Presbyterian Church, the church of my childhood. Returning to it brings warm nostalgic feelings Yesterday on Advent…
A Holiday Adoption
"Compassion is passion with a heart.” ~ Anonymous I swear my son Marc has never met a dog he didn't like. And his dear wife, Meghan, well, she's got a penchant for dogs too. The other day he called -…
Holiday Community Craft Fairs
"The product of the heart, head and hand is to be loved." ~ Elbert Hubbard On the first day of Advent a group of crafty people gathered at Mt Carmel United Methodist Church in Parkton, MD for their annual holiday…
A Feel Good Story
"Cooking with love, baking with heart." Do you ever have a day when all you are looking for is a feel good story? I've got one for you direct from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It's a town with lots of volunteers…
Holiday Readiness
Today's writing on SowtheHeart.com is too good not to share. It captures how so many of us feel during the Advent Season as we go about preparing for the holidays. I'd like to thank Maryland Presbyterian Church for posting a…
Samaritans Purse: Mongolian Heart Project
“The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.”— Anonymous The Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project is near and dear to my heart because I often consider what would have been my outcome if other's didn't care. As a heart patient…
On Freedom’s Path
There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”. ~ Harriet Tubman There couldn't have been a more opportune time than at the conclusion…
Immanuel: It’s a Feeling
I remember singing those very verses in my childhood! In the autumn of my life, November still comes with a feeling of binding together and bringing comfort to home and hearth. Hearty feelings of kinship come when the largest contingent…