Healing Made Visible
Breakfast at The Pancake House turned out to be a special gift and it wasn’t the pancakes. A young, smiling waitress escorted us to a table near where three older men were seated. Obviously retired,
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Learning from an Unlikely Source
Picture this. A French village in the late 1950’s. It is governed by a mayor who takes his job and religion very seriously. The doctrine of “giving up” something for lent is required in mass,
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2010 – A Heartfelt Easter
Five years ago on a Good Friday my chest was opened up and 2 blockages in my heart were bypassed with veins from my left leg. I was frightened but mildly relieved that rather than being
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Turning Hope into Joy
I have noticed that as we age we lose things. We lose our eyesight; we lose our hearing. We lose our hair, and even the elasticity of our skin. We lose muscle mass and bone
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Turning Trouble into Hope
Have you ever been driving or sitting at a stop light and happen to look over at the car next to you only to find a person ranting and raving to absolutely no one else
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Turning Worry into Trust
2015 hasn’t started out to be a good year with regards to my health. I fell victim to the flu and cold right after the New Year’s celebration and spent almost a week trying to
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Until We Meet Again
It was 23 years ago this past week that my mother died. She had battled breast cancer for 10 years and spent much of that time beating it into submission, living a good life, but
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A Caregiver’s Worth
If you are in a care-giving role, you may be feeling like you are a worn out floor mop used once too often and lost most of its ability to mop up the dirt and
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Standing Up for Faith
Last week I wrote about the persecution of faith. I asked if God was being pushed out of our lives and if so, what are we doing about it. And it started me to thinking.
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The Persecution of Faith
We are living in a society that is so afraid of being politically incorrect that we are denying our rights rather than allowing our rights to be exercised. I am talking about the persecution of
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I Must Be Dead – My Health Insurance Says So
Since Thad retired two years ago, there has been a tradition. On December 31st our health insurance coverage gets dropped. We usually find out by going for a doctor’s appointment or picking up prescriptions from
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