Has a wonder ever visited, perhaps as startling and magnificent as a parrot landing from nowhere on your shoulder, peering with perky eyes into yours? Have you smelled the sweet scent of dew on the dawning of a spring, the first garden buds blooming colorful faces like little elves across edges of fine cut lawns? …
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I’m reflecting today on the presence of God who sometimes seems so near, far away as the moon, or gone altogether. I’ve written a short poem, and sharing other poems, scripture and writings that speak to the many ways God shows up in our lives. In secret places I find you, between blades of grass …
We deal with troublemakers, those crafty people who get under our skin, wrecking havoc on our otherwise harmonious families, workplaces and communities, spreading ill-ease like an infectious disease. The truth is, troublemakers are often troubled people. Often prideful, ego-maniacal, jealous, controlling, ignorant, unhappy, angry, well-disguised sociopaths or mentally unbalanced — and some just Godless — …
A little red convertible sports car keeps revving it’s engine in my old soul during my mid-life, bidding me onward to new highways and byways, to mountaintops, my hair blowin’ in the breeze kind of freedom that’s calling me to grow and stretch in new ways. To tell you the truth, I expected slower drives …
I grew up in a family of five children on Long Island, New York. You’d think I’d feel part of a tribe, happy surrounded by brothers and sisters. But as the oldest daughter, with two younger sisters and two brothers who shared rooms, I often felt lonely in our Brady Bunch kind of family. It …