“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”    Sufi Epigram As I experience and heal from a...

  My life has been like a roller coaster for as far back as when my Nana passed away when I was a young adult.  It seems like I am always in...

That little voice in my head has been speaking to me and through feeling grateful again, I have regained hope for the future.  It isn't ...

  The tragic fires in California this past week have given me so much to think about life, hopes and dreams and gratitude.  In the course of...

  As a person who has gone to sleep watching television forever  because I hate silence and am especially fearful of darkness, I was not in ...

  I've started listening to music regularly as I did in "normal times."  Music has been a part of life since I was a little gi...

  I've been accepting the negative emotions today, facing them head on.  I'm not trying to ignore the bad feelings, I acknowledge th...

  If we are to have true peace in the world,  we must first find it within ourselves. "Most people agree that a more peaceful world wou...

The holidays alone can bring on difficult times for so many in this world for many reasons.  I found an excellent article entitled ...

Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficulties of the world. Br. David Steindl-Rast ...

In God we have . . . A love that can never be fathomed, A life that can never die, A righteousness that can never be tarnished, ...

As another holiday season approaches,  this will be my second  "normal" holiday since I became a widow. As...

Sometimes I just have to take a break from the computer and recharge my batteries.  Actually, I have taken a break from everything but ...

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us ...