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…
"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…
As summer winds down I am thinking about a narrative I posted on AllThingsFulfilling.com a few years ago about one of the most vivid memories of my young childhood. It involved setting up a lemonade stand with my twin sister and our…
When you take time to replenish your your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. – Eleanor Brownn No, I didn't venture off to Disneyland or Disney World. I went…