Let’s Keep Planting
Seed…..Time…..Harvest – that’s the process. We plant our seeds of faith, our seeds of caring and loving and giving and, sometimes, we think it’s taking way too long between planting the seed and gathering the harvest. Take an apple, for example. Inside this itty-bitty apple seed is a tree filled with apples. AMAZING! One small…
I Want to be the Apple that Didn’t Fall Far from Her Tree
Goodness gracious! I checked my blog archives and realized that it has been five years, 2015, since I gave credit to where credit is due for ME! Besides God, of course, it is to my dad and precious mother. Today is Mom’s birthday and the cast of characters for this 109th birthday celebration includes Father…
Peace Even When Anxiety Comes in Like a Flood
I love the words of St. Francis’ Prayer that goes “Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace”. That is sincerely my prayer — to be a peacemaker AND to live in that peace. But, HELLO, anxiety! After two beautiful days in Tulsa, the finale was to be another first-weekend-of-November Sister Marie Pierre Retreat at…
Keep Planting Those Seeds
Seed…..Time….Harvest – that’s the process. We plant our seeds of faith, our seeds of caring and loving and giving and, sometimes, we think it’s taking way too long between planting the seed and gathering the harvest. We surmise that it must have been unfruitful seed. Take an apple, for example. It is hard to believe,…
Never, Never, Never QUIT
Have you been part of a project or had a great idea and someone said, “It can’t be done”? Or with a group that despite the odds against them, they’re “just doing it”? Milton HERSHEY failed in his first two attempts to set up a candy business. H.J. HEINZ set up a company that produced…
You’re the Apple of His Eye
“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If God had a wallet, your photo would be in it.He sends you flowers in the Spring, and a sunrise each morning.You’re the apple of His eye and the delight of His heart.”-Max Lucado I’d say that makes you and me quite special. To know…