" The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." ~ Psalms 130:119 I don't know about you but I learn so much from reading and hearing the words of others. Since I've always been interested…
“ 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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
"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…