Tag: blessings

What if your candidate loses?

October 31, 2008 | 10 comments

If you are a US citizen, what if the presidential candidate you vote for next week loses the election? Is all lost? Nope. A power over the country much greater than any politician in office governs the land and ensures

Peace Pilgrim

July 21, 2008 | 4 comments

Have you ever heard of Peace Pilgrim? I hadn’t until a reader sent me to a web site dedicated to her life and teachings. Peace Pilgrim is the name of a woman who traveled throughout the United States, mostly on

Does money make you happy?

July 1, 2008 | 2 comments

Now here’s a new angle on what makes us happy that I hadn’t read before. An opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled, “Does money make you happy?” by Arthur Brooks, claims that feeling successful is more closely related

When wronged by others

May 6, 2008 | 7 comments

A couple of weeks ago I was grousing to myself about being unfairly wronged by another. I don’t like feeling resentful because I know it is totally out of character with living the Sermon on the Mount which instructs us

Retirement revised

February 7, 2008 | 1 comment

I read an article titled, “No time to retire,” in the Washington Post National Weekly last week that stated, “Millions of boomers are headed not for endless vacation but for a new stage of work, driven both by the desire