After Christmas Re-Do

After the busyness of the holiday season, it’s time to pull back and regroup.  For me, that means decluttering, then putting out a few white accessories mixed with plants and wood pieces to calm my space and my brain.  I think white is soothing.  (As long as it isn’t rugs or sofas!  I could never…

Thanksgiving Meditations

May these lovely images and encouraging verses put a spring in your step today!  Thankful for you, dear readers!   Turkey photo credit Kalyn M.

Selamat Siang

The story last week about the young Asian couple’s first year in America to attend college got a lot of response from my readers.  Emails and blog comments all mentioned the encouragement that story was.  This week is the beginning of the back story of that young couple and how they entered our lives. “I’m just…

Angel Help

Today we returned home from a week-long trip to visit one of our dear daughters a long distance away. An added benefit to our visits with our daughter and her husband and four children is that we spend nights with lifelong friends who live in our daughter’s vicinity. As we were sitting at their table in their…

Toward Dawn

I wonder why we celebrate All Hallows Eve, but forget about All Hallows Day, also known as All Saints Day? Many have difficulty believing in God, but few have trouble admitting there is evil.  No one can deny the darkness, the death, the war, the destruction, the loss in the world and in our personal…

I Accept

“I don’t like it.  I’m sad.  But I accept this.”  At first, I had to say it out loud every time I thought about how much I missed my kitty.  I said it out loud to help re-train my negative thoughts.  So many times in the routine of my day, I’d miss Kitty Mack.  The…