It is not happiness that makes you grateful; it is gratefulness that makes you happy. ~David Steindl-Rast Happy Sunday, Journeyer! This week has been all about you! I have dedicated this entire summer while I’m on break to learning and growing The Five Facets so that I can better serve you in your endeavors to heal your heartaches big and small. … Read More
Peace Be to Us
Dear Journeyer, Toward the bottom of this post is an original poem of peace; one penned for Us, for our World… Please read to the bottom, then share…Together we can heal a world of hurt… As I think about this Happy Happens post, I can’t help but reflect on the unrest I hear our country is facing right now. I read a social media post … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Freedom
As I prepared for my family’s July 4th celebration, I couldn’t help but think about some of the events and threads that comprise our freedom. Our freedom, for all of us who live in countries that afford us the privilege of choosing our own daily course of actions, was born on the backs and of the bloodshed of too many to … Read More
At the Intersection of Family and Growth
Happy Sunday-Monday, Journeyer! You know how it is when family comes to visit? Your schedule goes all sorts of wonky. Your floors somehow manage to accumulate dirt and dog hair (if there are pets involved) at the speed of sound. Your kitchen counters are cluttered with the extra items that won’t fit in the fridge or the pantry. And speaking … Read More
Life’s Formations
Happy Sunday, Journeyer! If you can believe it, I don’t have a current picture one that I can use to capture this week’s moments that are a part of my happiness. Not. A. One. What comes to mind right now is a photo Glennon Doyle Melton did when one of the school years began. The image captured her jumping high, fists … Read More
Celebrate Good Times, Anniversaries, Fathers, & Weddings
Happy Sunday, Journeyer! What comes to mind is that 80s hit by Kool & the Gang, Celebrate, Good Times. This past week has had numerous reasons for me to celebrate. I’ve let go, held on to, let go, held on to, then finally let go of another workplace dilemma. Something just broke in me this week and I’ve decided that … Read More
Tai, Chi, and the Journey
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. ~Canadian entertainer, Drake Happy Sunday, Journeyer! This has been such an interesting week, and for the most part it’s all about exploration and travels for my family. Warren has been in Cartagena this past week and I am so happy for all of the successes he and our … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Trust
“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” ~Seventeenth-century theologian Isaac Watts Trust. What is it? What does it mean? What does it accomplish? This five-letter word is like a second cousin to another five-letter word–Truth. Trust is basically having faith or a steadfast belief in the people, places, and planet around us. It’s a sense that these things will be … Read More
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Happy Sunday, Journeyer, Warren, Big Guy, and I spent most of last Sunday in a parking lot at an inlet’s edge, trying to fix a broken boot on our boat. We’d made plans for a Memorial Day outing with Beauty and her beau, and the boat had been the day’s major attraction. Upon discovering that the repair had ruptured during the … Read More
Recharging
Happy Sunday, Journeyer, Wow, in some ways it’s hard to believe a whole week has passed, but in some ways it feels like many more days have passed since I last wrote. Thanks to some unused snow days, our Memorial Day holiday was extended by three days! That means I have a whopping six days off from work. Six! Days! … Read More