Do you ever feel weary in your soul? I am very, very blessed in my family and daily life, but the world around me can be a lot. Everyone has different ways in which the world around them is “a lot.” And for some it’s not just the world around them, but their daily lives […]

    Some years ago, I was cutting an avocado, and my cousin commented on the way I was cutting it. It was different from the way she cuts avocados. She wasn’t judging my way of cutting it; she was just interested that I cut it differently from her. We do things differently; we think

If I asked you, “What is the most important thing to me?” what would you say? Not, “who is the most important thing to me?” – that would be God, then my family (husband, kids, grandkids) – but what? What possession do I have, that if I could only own one thing, would be that

Recently, I came across the following that I had written years ago, duing a very difficult time. *     *    * On Thursday, I was driving home from my counselling appointment, and I stopped by a dollar store to get something. It was in the stationery section. I noticed various journals (I was looking for something

Recently one of our sons invited family members to join him in reading the 27 shortest books of the Bible in 27 days – one book a day. And what I discovered (only on day 2 as of this writing) is that reading through a book in one sitting gives you a different perspective than

There is something about a new year. On one hand, nothing much changes – we wake up on January 1st  and do the same things we’ve been doing. On the other hand, there is something about a new year where one hopes for a fresh start, which is why many people make “New Year’s resolutions.” One