White Christmas Count your Blessings

I received an unexpected phone call yesterday from a family member who hasn’t communicated in three years; a self-imposed exile I guess.  Our relationship has been tenuous for most of it, but there have also been good times.  I always wonder if it is a good idea to reconnect and yet my instinct is to do…

My friend Helen has suffered a second stroke in as many months.  I was blessed enough to see her a couple of weeks ago being her perky self.  Helen is in her mid-seventies and has been enveloped by the Gospel most of her adult life.  She is the epitome of Christian dedication and it is…

“To you I raise my eyes,to you enthroned in heaven.Yes, like the eyes of a servant on the hand of his master,Like the eyes of a maidon the hand of her mistress,So our eyes are on the Lord our God,till we are shown favor.Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,for we have our fill of…

Returning to where I began, at my Lenten blog.  I stopped writing for a while to try to re-focus myself.  Apparently doing things in the fashion I have been doing them does not promote creativity.  But with a couple of big events behind me and with a need to delve into the spirit of  Lent,…

I just read the article below and beneath it is the comment I wrote.  I walked away from this conversation for a while just to take a breather and check and see how I really felt about all of this and to see if I was in line with what I practice and teach.  Well,…

So today was much more cheery than yesterday.  I was carrying a lot of worry and anxiety….and it came to a head last night seeing pictures of people’s lives in devastation.  I went to bed, as I always do when the world is too much.  Of course it was 10pm.  I woke to sunshine and birdsong…