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Getting Ready to Start the Year with “Daybook of My Personal Faith”
Getting Ready to Start the Year with Daybook of My Personal Faith Daybook of My Personal Faith came out in the middle of summer, and many who now have it, have already started reading it, including me who wrote it. And yet as we…
A Morning Idea
A Morning Idea Lately I have begun to recognize that in the morning I sometimes have an idea—a brainstorm. Sometimes it ends up being a dud. Sometimes I forget it in the process of starting the day. Today it was: in this time of…
Writing Down Blessings-New Addition
I’ve been writing down blessings every day since January 31, 2014. I’ve filled numerous small spiral bound notebooks and as I recorded them each night before bed, I smiled to remember the blessings. Some days I found myself struggling for something new to write,…
The Greatest Strength
Here’s a quote we sometimes have a hard time believing. It comes from the book Travels In a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall. The quote is: “The greatest strength is gentleness.”
Treasure Nearby
Treasure Nearby This morning I finished reading for the second time “Pacem in Terris: A Love Story” by Frederick Franck. It is the story of a place which Franck and his wife Claske established in Warwick, NY and which they named “Pacem in Terris.”…
Following Up on Lent
Following Up On Lent At the beginning of Lent I wrote about loving it. Now a few weeks after Lent, I need to follow up on it a little. It ended up being a strange Lent, because two and a half weeks after Ash…
I Love Lent
I Love Lent I LOVE Lent and I don’t know if you’re even supposed to. But here I am anyway, loving it on the sixth day of Lent. I’m using a book this year titled “Forty Days of Decrease—A Different Kind of Hunger. A…
Lots About Books–and War
Lots About Books—and War – January 3 Per usual, I read a lot in 2015—as in 197 adult books and 46 youth and children’s books. I belong to a United Methodist Women’s BookWorms group that meets once a month and I read a lot…
Cemetery Wandering
345. Cemetery Wandering I wandered our local cemetery today to stand beside a few of the many graves that were marked with flags. I am anti-war, and pro-veteran. Just the other day I saw on the internet a short documentary about veterans, and health…
Apology
A few days ago I wrote a story about the British Navy and the Irish Navy which I had come upon. I presented it as true, and a reader has called to my attention that it is not true. Good story—but not a true…
New Release!!
Daybook of Personal Faith
Mama and Me
