Growing Older — Growing Merrier
TBT — This photo was taken two years ago during Mom’s 90th Birth-Month Celebrations. Each day of that October month, we made a big deal of celebrating her. On this day (October 9th, 2012), I gave her “The Last of the Good Clean Jokes” Book. It was to honor her, and her great sense of…
You Are His Treasured Possession
Helping my daughter and her family unpack into their new home in Texas, we were sorting through “stuff” to determine what to keep or put in an upcoming yard sale that their new neighborhood was getting ready to have. I came across a few things that I snagged that were “just my size” or I…
Count Your Blessings — Name Them One By One
On a recent flight, I read Michael J. Fox’s take on “Coping with Adversity”. He said “It was only when I could accept the fact that I had Parkinson’s disease that I began to think, ‘What haven’t I lost?’ I haven’t lost my enthusiasm. I haven’t lost my intelligence. I haven’t lost my passion for…
Do You Suffer From Nomophobia?
Do you remember the challenge of having to find a pay phone to make a very necessary phone call, trying to find the quarter or change needed, and remembering the number you needed to call? And, waiting in line? Whew! Before cell phones became available in the late ’80s, pay phones were the way we…
You Need a Class Clown in Your Life
The Class Clown — oh, how I wanted to be her. She could make any situation funny — without even trying. She was my roommate, Lois, at Canyonville Bible Academy in Oregon. She always had me, and others, in stitches. I have a daughter that’s like that, too! To this day, she can still make…
Don’t Be Ashamed of Your Story
CHAZOWN is a Hebrew word for vision, purpose, destiny — and it’s what God had in mind for us when He created us. Each one of us was placed on earth for a unique purpose that’s solely ours to fulfill. I was once a participant, but this weekend I was a veteran volunteer at the…
Are You a Caregiver? Then You Are Being Used By God.
Yesterday, I watched a dear friend whisper into her sweet Mama’s ear “I love you. Thank you”, and I watched her stroke her hair and tenderly kiss her on the cheek. This precious Mama is transitioning from this earth home to her heavenly home. But this care, she was being given today, has been ongoing…
What Does Your Book of Influence Look Like?
Are you an INFLUENCER to those around you…..and what does that “influence” look like? Does it influence others to be better, act better and live better lives? Here’s a way to measure: We go throughout our day and people get to know us and they see how we treat those around us….from our children, to…
Pliable and Moldable in His Hands
How in the world did Sculptor Gutzon Borglum foresee the sculpted faces of U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt by just looking at a cliff in the Black Hills of South Dakota? But he did by envisioning what those Black Hills could become, and after 14 years, he finally completed…