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I think now what I would want my kids to do in my situation, and then go and try to earnestly do that myself. It is so much better for everyone than me thinking what I would have them do if I was them.
Today I am giving the invocation for our 9/11 fifteenth anniversary memorial service sponsored by our local clergy association. This is what I am going to say:
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles…
I thought this was a great idea of a way to finance a soup kitchen! They make popovers and oatmeal for tourists and residents in the mornings in the summer and finance free food for the less fortunate through the cold months of the year.
These are such simple intentions to carry throughout your day, but their impact is incalculable.
The Golden Rule is universal wisdom that we all could apply more seriously for our mutual benefit.
Too often we jump in to (supposedly!) help something along when it would be better to allow some room for God to dazzle us.
Someone told me she had trouble with the concept of meekness, since it seemed so weak and doormat-like.
Everyone makes choices about how to spend their money based on their priorities and values. Here is some of how we vote with our money…
This is helpful to know both in creative endeavors and in spiritual life.
I encourage you to make ongoing, conscious choices to inhabit the perspective that will joyously propel you in the best direction.
We must choose to consciously put a stop to polarized thinking of every stripe, and begin to fastidiously embrace all of God’s creation with everlasting, unconditional love.
Unless a person submits to this original creation—the ‘wind-hovering-over-the-water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom.
Check out some of what I especially appreciate that he advocated shown in memes here in this post…
So many of you have asked what are or plans now that we have no children left under our roof, that I thought it might be expedient to answer that question here. The short answer, obviously, is that we’ll have more time for ourselves.
I need to express my profound gratitude for my husband’s help in launching this new website of mine. It would not have happened without him.
