the Old Way, only better
My kids are remembering “the old days.” A time when cell phone use at schools was hidden in the bathroom so you wouldn’t get caught and have your phone confiscated. “That was like 6th grade, Mom,” she says. I’m not sure her memory is serving her exactly. ‘She’ is in 10th grade. Four years ago is […]
Two sides of the same…notebook
Call me cheap or thrifty or just plain utilitarian, but I use both sides of a sheet of paper. I’m not proud about that, probably got it from my mom who called it “being Scotch.” If anyone knows what that means, please let me know. But this goes beyond your typical utilitarian paper-use. This morning […]
Divine Design makes you wonder
Isn’t it funny that two things, set next to each, can look so similar? One under maximum magnification and the other via maximum minification. The images, out of context and with no indication of scale might be mistaken, one for the other. Neither one can I touch or manipulate. I just sit back and marvel […]
Mind the Gap
We’ve just returned from travels in London. Can you tell? “Mind the gap,” the recorded voice tells you every time the underground train pulls into the station. It’s a very succinct way to call to your attention the danger in falling between the train and the platform onto the tracks below. It doesn’t say, “Watch out!” It […]
Morning Has Broken ~ welcome Spring!
In 1931, celebrated English children’s author Eleanor Farjeon wrote a poem for children to celebrate the first day of Spring. Set to a Gaelic melody, it climbed the pop charts as a Cat Stevens recording in 1971, and it remains one of Christendom’s favorite hymns. What a power lyrics have when we read and speak them! MORNING HAS […]
Have you seen the DQ Duckie?
Once you see it, you can’t miss it.
Holy Willpower
With thanks to my friends at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Vienna, VA, I share this article written for their Lenten booklet on this day, my Dad’s 78th birthday. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy […]
Can we see stillness? hear silence?
The still life helps us to see and hear, ever in new ways.
Ever had one of those “Stop right where you are” moments?
Have you ever had one of those frozen-in-your-tracks moments? When you get some news and your heart skips a beat? And there’s literally nothing to be done before you deal with this? Somehow our circuitry seems to be wired even to manage the impossible situation. We stop. Perhaps we consider our alternatives. We wonder who […]
What small thing, offered in love, has been life-giving for you?
Mother Teresa said, “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” Genius. Frankly, I like to think of myself as a big thing do-er. Don’t bother me with the small stuff. If just anyone can do it, well then, let them. Don’t bother me. I’m saving […]