My birthday wish is kinda like The Giving Tree…
I'm not good at asking for help. I'm almost as bad at it as receiving a compliment! I'm happy and eager to be a helper to you, and it's as natural as breathing to give compliments to others, it's simply hard for me to be on the...
The crazy lady
It's patellar reflex, impossible for me to resist–I have to say "God bless you" when somebody sneezes. And so it went the morning I met the crazy lady at Panera. It wasn't that I was asking God to bless the crazy...
A stirring
"The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth." "The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are...
No excuses, daggum it!
I can live for two months on a good compliment.~ Mark Twain When someone pays you a compliment, how do you typically respond? I know what my go-to mechanism is and I’m curious if you can relate. I double-dawg-dare ya...
Around/About: The “Spring Has Sprung” Edition :: Week ending 3/26/11
A collection of links I love, sites I like, interesting reads or cool happenings nearby. The Presence of Greatness ~ from Jeanne Damoff, breath-taking wordsmith, beautiful storytelling. Rob Bell and C.S. Lewis ~ a guest post at Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed, in...
Organized Simplicity winner!
#10, Liberty, with her imaginative comment: "liked you on FB." 🙂 Send me your email and I'll pass it along pronto! Thanks to all who joined in! It's nice to know I'm not the only A.D.D. Messy!! ...
Sisters, The Fight
I'm squirming on my back, apartment grade wall-to-wall burning hot into my shoulder blades. Pinned beneath the weight and will of a 54-pound Know It All, I'm at the mercy of my big sister and self-appointed Boss of Me, in her estimation a God-given...
One in hand…is ENOUGH!
He's amused, this boy-man of mine, perhaps more with himself than me; he knows . He likes this power, the ingenuity to hold me hostage, to keep me waiting and wondering, the ability to make me laugh. It is his super power and he brandishes it at...
NEVER in a million years…
"Betcha can't guess what's in my hand," said the one who had surgery . And, he was right; had I begun guessing and continued til the end of time as we know it, I would have never guessed. Can you? Let's make it fun–IF...