An Enlightening Thought
“ Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ... Unknown Have you ever known someone who has faced challenge after difficult challenge, yet they're still a beacon of light for other people? That…
Chance Opportunity
"Why try to explain miracles to your children when you can have them just plant a garden." ~ Robert Brault In many geographical areas seed catalogs are appearing in mailboxes. Valuable life lessons can be shared if you leaf through…
Messengers of Hope
Happy New Year!!! The number of saviors in my life in 2018 was astounding and heartwarming. Without these real life Santa Clauses, archangels, guardian angels, ministering spirits or whatever you chose to tag them, one of the most difficult years…
Blue Christmas Heart
I've always loved everything about Christmas. With the loss of my two parents nine months ago, this Christmas is quite different. Now, decades later, I am more closely relating to how my mother must have felt trying to make Christmas…
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…
What’s at the Root of It?
“If the urge to be entertained so much, to travel so much, to buy so much, and to arm ourselves so much no longer motivated our behavior, could our society as it is today still function?” Henri J.M. Nouwen, Making All Things…
Entrances and Exits
“When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place.” ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen, Making All Things New This church is the United Methodist Church in a place called Cades Cove in the Smokey Mountains. You might ask, what's with the two…
New Season Perspectives
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise ...would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life. ~Hal Borland Anything colorful landing at your feet these days? I love the earthy, musky scents…
Spiritual Nourishment
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises. ~ Leo Buscaglia…
A Simple Shift
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo diVinci How often have we looked at something and said "It's so beautiful because it's so simple" or "What a simple concept, why didn't I think of that?" We human beings tend to complicate…