Another of my favorite days. For many years I have baked cookies (lots and lots of cookies) as well as fruitcakes for the holidays. I usually do it a little earlier than this, on Thanksgiving weekend. But any day is a good day to bake holiday cookies. This is a perfect family activities. Get theContinue reading “Bake Cookies Day”
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Continual Spiritual Exercises
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” – Leo Buscaglia
The Seed of Hope
“Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.” – Gloria Gaither
Prayer From the Heart
“It is true that a prayer that comes from the heart can move mountains, it increases your faith, and brings you closer to God.” – Rebecca Small
From Activity to Energy
“The Holy Spirit turns prayer from activity into energy.” – John Blanchard
The Friday Affirmation
“Conscious breathing is my anchor.” —Thích Nhất Hạnh from Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training:
The Kingdom of God is Organic
“Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly. — Os Guinness
Discovery of New Mysteries
“And so there comes a time — I believe we are in such a time — when a civilization has to be renewed by the discovery of new mysteries, by the undemocratic but sovereign power of the imagination, the power that makes all things new.”— Norman O. Brown
Something Better Awaits Us
“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” —Barack Obama
Dark Enough to See the Stars
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. We are returning to daily blog posts. New posts go up at 3:00 AM Central Tiime unless I make a typo when scheduling. Please stop by and begin your day with a little espiration. You mayContinue reading “Dark Enough to See the Stars”
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