Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash) Or so the myth goes. Still I love the idea. The humble bumble bee can teach us a few tricks! Sometimes it’s better if […]
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Christmas – Season of Promise Three dreamers, chasing a star . . . Three dreamers come from afar . . . How I admire their ability to hold on to what they believe is true. How I admire those who risk everything because of a hunch, because of a promise from only-God-knows-whom. They kept their […]
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Advent – Season of Hope Who speaks to me? Someone I can trust? Will the words I hear withstand the test of time? Will they lead me to salvation–or despair? Who do I hear speaking to me in my darkness, speaking words of comfort, of hope? I want so much to believe what I hear, […]
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Advent – Season of Hope “You promised!” my children protest. How did “I’ll think about it” become a promise? How did the merest suggestion that I would consider their request take on the trappings of an oath? The answer eludes me. To them, a suggestion is as good as a promise. They believe in that […]
Read More“What are you doing?” my friend Sally asked me as I pulled out dandelion after dandelion. “Getting rid of these dandelions.” “Oh,” she watched as I continued my futile efforts to rid the yard of these weeds. “I like dandelions. I like seeing fields of yellow.” I continued pulling but in that moment a belief […]
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