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
Category: Encouragement
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
Unexpected Gift
I remember a time while at Methodist Hospital in Rochester awaiting word on the surgical outcome of our daughter, my husband and I decided to get a bite to eat. The food court was especially crowded, but a couple about our age invited us to sit with them at their table. We lunched and chatted together. The woman, a pleasant woman with a friendly smile, was to have a mastectomy the following day. We could sense their concern and trepidation, and although, we had not spoken of spiritual matters, my husband asked if we could pray with them. They agreed. Read More