My Top Ten list this month: Summer Wishes 1. Light. What makes summer, of course, is the light. I wish light for you this summer. The kind that reveals, heals and makes things grow. I hope you will awaken to light and notice it all day as it moves across the sky creating golden streaks… Continue reading My Top Ten Summer Wishes
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When Life is Real
About a hundred years ago, I wrote a weekly column for some local newspapers. I loved writing about real life and alluding to spiritual truths as I wrote. I titled that column Real Life. One of the editors tried to get me to change that title. He said it was too predictable and cliche. I… Continue reading When Life is Real
In the Turning
He's six now, in that stage of life where you lose your top two front teeth. He's only lost one of those top ones so far, and one on the bottom, adjacent to it. He's definitely snaggle-toothed and what we all know is that losing those baby teeth is a turning. It is just one… Continue reading In the Turning
Simply Scorching
I have a weekly zoom meeting with women from all over the nation. We always begin with a weather check. Yesterday, after the Texas weather report, they asked how in the world we were coping here with no rain and day after day of 100 plus degree temperatures. I said, We've been beaten down into… Continue reading Simply Scorching
Broken Joy
We've all been there, in that fragile place where just one small thing is all it takes to tip us toward despair or overload. You know the feeling. In fact, you've probably felt it more than once this week. For me, it was when Joy broke. All year, I've been writing about mountains, the big,… Continue reading Broken Joy
