My husband is the volunteer “boots on the ground” maintenance person at our little church. As such, he does the mowing, snow removal, light bulb replacing, leaf blowing, and flagpole upkeep. This week he had just remembered to raise the church flag to full staff after a month of mourning for the late President Jimmy […]
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“The power of one mind can shine into another, because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it is eternal.”* This quote from A Course in Miracles speaks enormous volumes to me. It describes so aptly what we are all doing on Planet Earth. We’re all here
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I was baptized as an infant in a Methodist Church in Topeka, KS. I was full-body dunked in the baptismal font as a teen in a Southern Baptist church in my Grandview, MO neighborhood. I think I recall being baptized again and confirmed as a Catholic while married to my first husband. I even came
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Her grandchildren called her Rita the Great. That title certainly fit my former mother-in-law. Rita died in February at 101 years of age. Even decades before she celebrated her 100th birthday she was revered by many who knew her, even outside her huge family. What made this woman saint-like was her capacity for love.
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The idea for this blog came to me in my quiet morning time. With the world seemingly fractured and chaotic, I wondered what I could do in my little corner to help raise the vibration for good and help focus on what we’re all here to do–love each other. Reviving and restructuring a blog I
