Category: hope

Are you listening?

February 9, 2012 | 1 comment

Gently as Doves Great ideas, come into the world As gently as doves. Perhaps then if I listen attentively, I shall hear amid the uproar Of empires and nations, A faint flutter of wings, A gentle stirring of life and

On our way to Stratford-upon-Avon

October 3, 2011 | 6 comments

If you ever want a peaceful, super place to stay in a countryside setting in the Cheshire/Nantwich region, I highly recommend The Old Pump House Bed and Breakfast! Kathy and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay there with a very gracious hostess, an idyllic

A better habit

September 8, 2011 | 3 comments

Do you have any bad habits you’d like to conquer?  Most people probably have at least one or two items on their “would love to stop doing it,” list they’d like to see removed. Rather than beating yourself up for

The invincible summer

September 7, 2011 | 1 comment

  In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.                                    ~ Albert Camus

Overcoming sadness

August 24, 2011 | 6 comments

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalms “I will…tear off your