“Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.”~L.M. Browning One year ago, almost to the day, I came back from a break refreshed and renewed. Soon after my...
Last week, I wrote about being overwhelmed by circumstances and offered a list of suggestions that might help someone get unstuck. You can read it here. Interestingly, right after I posted it I bumped into...
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”~Paulo Coelho Overwhelm. What do you think? Can it be used as a...
“Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.” ~ John Wooden Traits like character, integrity, and moral fiber seem to fascinate...
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” ~ W. M. Lewis A couple of weeks ago I shared a personal, soul-stirring experience with...
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Wisdom has a way of hiding in the ordinary. I don't remember a time in my life when wisdom...
"May we think of freedom not as the opportunity to do as we like but as the opportunity to do the right thing."~ Peter Marshall The Fourth of July makes me completely giddy and I'm a...
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”~ Meister Eckhart When I was a little kid, you could buy "magic slates," sometimes called paper savers, in grocery stores and dime stores everywhere. They consisted of a...
“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” ~ Rumi I've grown to love the pinball-like action that certain conversations trigger in my unruly jack rabbit brain. One cell lights up and then...
“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.“~Wilferd Peterson A recent book, The Last Arrow by Erwin Raphael McManus...