Mothers Day Thoughts

This Sunday, May 14, is Mothers’ Day. It is a day set aside to express gratitude for the women who gave us birth, and the men and women who were our first care-givers. Each of us has her own story of how successfully our mothers gave us models for raising our own children. In my…

More Helpful Than Harmful

We are all on a spiritual path whether we know it or not. Before I knew that there was a spiritual path to be on, I would often get stuck in ideas that would not let go of me. They stuck to me and I stuck to them. Most of them were not for my highest…

The Joy of Cause and Effect

The Joy of Cooking I just had a funny conversation with our administrator Diane Hennessy about the talk title “Joy of Living.” She said, “It makes me think about a cookbook.” To which I replied, “It is a cookbook! I have it.” Then she responded, “No, that is what I thought, too. The cookbook is titled…

Being in Glorious Community

On Easter Sunday, Wade Wooldridge sang a song that I had come across on the internet several months ago, “Glorious” by David Archuletta. I love this song: it has meaningful lyrics and a beautiful melody. I was grateful that Wade learned it. It reminds me of the value of community, of being part of something greater…