full bloom
If you’re anywhere near fifty years old and plan to live a full and productive life until your eighties, ten thousand good days are about what you have left. Some of us will have more, others less. Shockingly few...I know. Looking ahead to 2017 is a good time to ask: “How best can I live my days? Where am I a spectator of life and where am I a fully invested participant? Am I in full bloom?” Take a moment to ponder: A. How can I go deeper spiritually in 2017? 1. Join a Bible
Santa-ty
It’s not too late! Ten Tips for Keeping Your “Santa-ty” over the Holidays --Confessions from a Recovering Christmas-holic. Advent is the season of “Expectation," but all too often what I have been “expectantly awaiting” has sadly not been the celebration of the birth of our Savior or His second coming. In my younger years what I was awaiting was the gift-giving extravaganzas of the season. After becoming a mother, there was a new expectation: I was going to have to produce t
I brake for beauty
Last night a group of friends and I gathered and did something rather scandalous in this crazy-busy time of year… we took a beauty break. “What is a beauty break?” you might ask. It’s not getting your nails and hair done or any other external spa treatment, but it does help to smooth the worry wrinkles around your eyes, soften furrowed brows, loosen the tightness around your lips and even ease shoulders tied up in knots. How? We connected to God by contemplating something bea
present
It was the end of a long weekend and I had been away since Friday. It did not seem like the reasonable thing to do… but it sure felt like the right thing. I had my friend leave me at a train station... no ticket, no schedule... just knowing that I needed to get to New York and feeling certain that there would be a train headed that way before too long. As God would have it, I arrived ten minutes before the northbound train departed and had just enough time to gather myself an
