Love Is Still The Key

  I read the article “Love key to brain development in children” by Dr. Charles Raison with interest this morning. It highlighted something that I have seen many times throughout my years as a classroom teacher and also as a licensed professional counselor and...

Rise And Shine

  “Rise and shine.” Every morning without fail my mom used to call these words to me as I slept in my cozy bed upstairs. I used to anticipate them when I heard her slippered feet coming down the hall in the early morning. She used to knock lightly on my door and then...

Need Or Call

The need is great. All around us are people hurting and longing for release from pain, pressure and poverty. I look at my meager supply with frustration. It is too small. No matter how hard I try to make it spread I can’t make it wrap itself around this hurting world...

This Little Light Of Mine

  ‘This little light of mine. I’m gonna let it shine.’ I sang this little chorus more times than I can remember as a young girl in Sunday School. ‘Shine all over _______. ‘  The places changed from Levittown to Ashokan and Saugerties, Kansas City to Owego to...