Good Morning, God! I’m remembering a line from M. Scott Peck. It is something to the effect that A Parent Who Refuses to Learn From His Child Is Condemned to an Early Senility. That statement rings too true! Thank You,…
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End of the Year Thoughts
Tagged with: being a Very Proud Person, Pride
Posted in accepting my need for help, Being a Very Proud Person, daughters, Families, family visits, learning, Pride
Posted in accepting my need for help, Being a Very Proud Person, daughters, Families, family visits, learning, Pride
Seeking, Asking and Knocking — Looking Ahead
Sometimes solutions to problems are just as simple as “changing a setting” or two.
Tagged with: accepting help, asking for help, changing my "settings"
Posted in accepting my need for help, being repotted, Changing, daughters, Definitions, family visits
Posted in accepting my need for help, being repotted, Changing, daughters, Definitions, family visits
On Feeling Like a Pile of Pick-up Sticks
Rainbows as Signs Good Morning, God! After hearing myself say something to the effect that I felt like pile of “pick-up-sticks” it came to me that I needed to do something about it. So, I called a old friend who…
Lashing ourselves to the mast — or putting in ear plugs?
Good Morning, God! Through a series of “random” connections I ended up at an interesting website called 99% and saw this illustration of Odysseus who had himself bound to the mast to resist the irresistible songs of the Sirens. His…
Posted in accepting my need for help, choosing HARD
A New Week — Another World
Good Morning, God! My morning work is done and I am feeling good! Both boys (young men, really) are off to school with lunches, water bottles, backpacks and saxophone. I have done my morning jog and have now returned to…
Beauty, Life and Weeping with Those Who Weep
Good Morning, God! I’m headed off this morning — EARLY — to get my mom to the doctor’s by 7:30 A.M. I want to get to her apartment in time for her to have some coffee and a bite to…
Work Hardened — in Metal and Men
Good Morning, God! You caught me by surprise, yesterday. I had no idea I You were going to point out my “Gollum” potential. Sigh. But now, God, back to “my” topic about the jewelry class. The instructor explained that when…
Tagged with: crystalline structures and rigidity, God's healing Love, the annealing of the Heart, work-hardened
Posted in accepting my need for help, Hearts, LOVE, Work
Posted in accepting my need for help, Hearts, LOVE, Work
Walking (slowly) in the Light
Good Morning, God! Yesterday I intended to jog around Kapiolani Park. I thought that after my 3.1 mile “Mango Days 5K” race on Sunday it would be doable. Not so, God. Although I did jog for a half-mile or so,…
Cleaning a Corner and Embracing Being Needy
Good Morning, God! Yikes! Yesterday my office reached such a state of FULLNESS that I didn’t even want to be in it. Fullness is a very charitable word. It felt as if years worth of undone work was lurking in…
A Moment with God 