Is That A Need Or A Want?

Children just know they want it. Parents must teach them the difference between a need and a want. How about you? Are you discerning the difference between needs and wants in your own life? I want peace. I work for peace. I teach skills on ways to build peace within...

How Are You Growing?

Years ago I remember the excitement I felt when my Dad got out the yardstick and one by one measured how much my brothers and I had each grown. While everyone watched he placed a marker on our head, then drew a line with a pencil and wrote the date beside it. Giggles...

Strength For The Asking

Happy New Year, friends. It is exciting to face a new year filled with possibilities. It is energizing to look ahead and remember that there is always more. Sure there will be challenges we never dreamed of    and unexpected changes. Life continues to flow with the...

Celebrate Life

On November 19, 2011, families and adoption advocates will celebrate adoption in large communities and small throughout our nation. National Adoption Day is a day that holds special interest to me having adopted my two precious daughters from Russia. They have...