Take a few minute on Thanksgiving to meditate on the endless chain of gifts we each have received. Perhaps the greatest being our faith in God and the future. We are thankful for lessons we’ve had to learn over and over; and those who had the patience to continue to teach. For maligning hearts, the…
Recycle
Our grand mothers were practical women — Suzy’s Grandma Danny and my grandmother Linnie washed aluminum foil after they cooked with it and then reused it. “Waste not, want not” was a way of life. Recycling was not something they did for the environment, it was how they lived. Bacon grease was saved and cooked…
Words Of Our Mouths
Food for Thought this Monday: Islam is a religion to which more than 1.5 Billion people have been drawn. To link Islam to a few ‘violent jihadists’ who practice a corrupt, bastardized version of the teachings of Muhammed merely confers religious bona fides on the undeserving. ISIL and Al Qaeda are not “civilizations” or “religious”…
Garden
I’ve never been much of a gardener. I even had a hard time mowing the lawn in straight lines. However, there are a lot of analogies in the spiritual world to growth and harvesting. Hopefully I can learn to be a better gardener in that sense. Our minds contain a harvest ready for the reaping.…
Life
Live without worry, work without hurry, and look forward without fear. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that in a years’s time will be forgotten. No life is incapable of changing for the better.