Always Hope

  Like a race, my life is lived one step at a time. Feet hitting pavement. Breathing in, breathing out.  Miles pass as I keep running and running. The race is long. I often get weary, don’t you? My eyes scan the sides of the rode longing for water. But there is...

High Call, High Honor

Yesterday we celebrated the day I brought home my youngest daughter, Jenny, from Russia. I’ll never forget that landing at Dulles airport surrounded by my oldest, Noelle, who was nine at the time. She ran to me her Santa hat bouncing on her black curls. My eyes filled...

Letting Go and Holding On

Life is made of choices. Our success in life depends upon making wise choices. And among the all the choices we make every day one of the most crucial is knowing what things to let go of and what to hold on to. But all too often we get this confused, don’t we? We hold...

Choosing Peace

Although it’s important to choose to see what we could do rather than what is, it is vital that we balance that with an acceptance of what is. Hmm, sound strange? Let me try to explain. A few days ago I badly bruised my right hand. For days I have not only been...

Choose To See

  I sit here at my dell computer this morning. All I see is a screen, my keyboard, the few items on my desk and the windows on each side. But there is so much more beyond what my eyes can see. There is the world of faces that I can not see but who will read these...