Taking last week’s post about “Thanks-living” to heart, I have been living in thankfulness for the holiday weekend spent with our family. Our children are grown and married with amazing lives of their own. One lives about thirty minutes from us, but is a busy and successful entrepreur. The other lives in Florida and just brought a whole new kind of joy [...]
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Thank you Thursday
December 1, 2011Thanks-living
November 24, 2011Not only is it Thanksgiving Day, but it is also the day that, for over a year now, I have been writing a weekly “Thank you Thursday” post, expressing gratitude for people or experiences in my life, both ordinary and extraordinary. Many of us will be doing the same thing today; taking a moment between [...]
Book Review – Stained Glass Hearts
November 21, 2011Stained Glass Hearts, Seeing Life From A Broken Perspective, written by Patsy Clairmont and published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. 2011. At its most basic level, the beauty of a stained glass window comes when light shines from the inside darkness. The dark colors of broken and fragile glass are transformed to glowing richness; beauty radiates. So it is with people. In [...]
Thank you Thursday
November 17, 2011I’ve been really working on practicing gratitude over the last year. When I sit down to write the weekly “Thank you Thursday” post, sometimes it flows easily. Other times, I have to put aside a rough day, or ignore not feeling well, or the myriad of other things that can stand in the way of [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
November 15, 2011I’ve had the joy of being around a new baby boy several times in the last 36 hours. Instead of the typical teamwork or leadership quotes, this week’s Tidbit is inspired by him! A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. -Eda J. LeShan A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, [...]
Happy Birthday, Mom!
November 6, 2011Today is my Mom’s 76th birthday. She doesn’t know it’s her birthday. She won’t be celebrating today. I can’t pick up the phone and wish her well. My brother will visit her, I’m sure, but she won’t recognize him. Mom has Alzheimer’s. I’ve written about Mom and this disease on Mother’s Day and Alzheimer’s Action Day and [...]
Thank you Thursday
October 20, 2011Thank you Thursday was a practice I adapted from an August 2010 post by the same name on the Modern Servant Leader blog, written by Ben Lichtenwalner. I loved the idea of intentional gratitude and the intentional expression of gratitude. What I’ve learned is that thinking about being thankful for the “big” things is easy. Remembering all of the little things [...]
Book Review: The Hour That Matters Most
October 10, 2011The Hour That Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal, by Les & Leslie Parrott with Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2011. I was fortunate enough to be raised in a traditional nuclear family; Dad worked outside the home, Mom worked inside. Every night, we ate a family [...]
Thank you Thursday
September 29, 2011How do you define “friend?” In today’s vernacular, one of the first things many people think of is someone they are connected with on Facebook. That’s one version of a friend, but not exactly what I mean. I think a friend is someone with whom you can share aspirations, disappointments, successes, challenges, laughter, tears, joys and [...]
Thank you Thursday
September 15, 2011The last three weeks have been especially stressful for me. Massive changes were being thrown at me and I needed time to process. What I needed more than anything, though, was simply a break. Pressures were building, creativity was sputtering, patience were short, and focus was shifting away from others and inwards to me. That [...]
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