I would love to sit around the “water cooler” with you, so, I am inviting you to be my guest blogger. Yep, that’s right. You would be my guest writer on my blog page! I would delight to serve you my favorite healthy snack of yogurt with walnuts, or a decadent dessert with chocolate and whipped cream as I, and my readers, listen to you share what touches your heart, or what impacts your life, or what’s important to you, or what inspires you. Don’t Have to be Profound ~ Don’t think you must be profound, or that you have Read More
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Shoes with Soul
This post-Christmas story from an unknown man touched my heart, and I thought it may touch yours as well. I showered and shaved – I adjusted my tie. I got there and sat in a pew just in time. Bowing my head in prayer as I closed my eyes, I saw the shoe of the man next to me touching my own. I sighed. With plenty of room on either side, I thought, Why must our soles touch? It bothered me; his shoe touching mine. But it didn’t bother him much. A prayer began: “Our Father…” I thought, This man Read More
Behind the Scene Story of Pain and Hope
This is the true story of pain and hope behind the Christmas carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” It was March, 1863, in Cambridge, MA., when unbeknownst to his family, 18-year old Charles Appleton Longfellow, oldest of six children born to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Fannie Appleton, walked out of his house on Brattle Street to join President Lincoln’s Union Army to fight in the Civil War. Less than two years earlier, Charles’ mother died tragically when her dress caught fire. Her husband, Henry, tried desperately to extinguish the flames, but to no avail. She died the following Read More