(Photo Credit: Terry Ogden) There’s just something euphoric about the dawning of a new day – everything awakens – the darkness fades into the light, and the old becomes new. I could never, nor would I want to, live in a world where darkness prevails. The darkness can overwhelm, can’t it? And it is during […]
Read More Embracing The Light(Photo Credit: The Giant’s Causeway, Ireland) If we live long enough we will face the task of transitioning. This past week, after weeks of going back and forth discussing new housing options, Mom and I began our search for her new home. Mom has come to the place in her life where she is considered […]
Read More TransitioningThis is my 8 month old kitten Woody, and this is his first snow. Woody, in case you can’t tell, is in awe. He’s cautious and curious, simultaneously. See how his hind quarters are low to the ground and his ears are erect? Woody is definitely tuned in to all of his surroundings. Even his […]
Read More In Awe(Photo Credit: Mother and Child By Francesco Strino (1979, Italian) I watched a mother hold the hand of her son today. She smiled down on him and he smiled up at her. They walked in unison across the street. They are not blood, but does that matter with an image such as this? As I […]
Read More Reflecting(Photo Credit: 16/365 In motion by *December Sun via Flicker) There’s something almost sacred about a fresh blanket of snow, isn’t there? I mean, who isn’t in awe watching it snow? I love to walk in snow, too, and even though I cannot retrace the footsteps of my life, quite frankly, I’m not sure I […]
Read More Seeking Purity (Psalm 51:10 NIV)What excites you? Me, I am tickled pink with a new book, a grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup to dunk it in, a day with nothing to do, a Sunday nap, and a weekend retreat to the mountains, especially when it’s snowing! Getting excited about something, anything, evokes a childlike feeling, doesn’t […]
Read More ChildlikeWe lie in bed, my husband and I, our backs reveling from the PainStop spray. We’re injured. His lower back, my upper left, just under the shoulder blade. He doesn’t know how he hurt his. Me, I lifted our four year old niece at Christmas, I think. My husband breaks the silence and says, “We smell like […]
Read More Gaining Perspective(Photo Credit: bestfunnyjokes4u.com) My days are full of constant chatter. It doesn’t matter if the chatter is interesting, life shattering, or pertinent. What does matter is how I process what I hear. I admit some days I want to shout, “Shut Up, People. I don’t care, and neither does anyone else,” but I don’t. Instead, […]
Read More RestrainingEcclesiastes 3:1 ‘To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ Time is our most precious commodity. It rules us, literally. I love a lot of things in my life: my home, my pets, my family, my friends, and my quiet space, just to name a few, but […]
Read More Time ConsciousFunny how one day seems to fade into the next, isn’t it? Most nights, before I slip into blissful slumber, I rethink my day and ponder the should of, would of, could of opportunities that I missed. But today, I am not dwelling on such things. Nope. Today, I am dancing . . . Dear God: […]
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