In her idea-spurring book, Make a List, Marilyn McEntyre describes list-making as a spiritual exercise. She describes how the making of lists can shape, form, and reveal us - while she also shares a number of her own as examples and food for thought. One of them, "What marriage teaches us," includes these ideas: There’s…
gratitude with grit
As you sat around the Thanksgiving dinner table recently, and someone offered you something you didn’t want on your plate, what did you say? No thank you. You declined, and your polite "no" was enough - unless Uncle Ned was really insistent that you try his brussel sprout & lima bean surprise. If only "No,…
an ambidextrous faith
"Trouble is a prophecy that God will give me strength; He will not abandon me like an unmarked grave."Andy Squyres, As the Sparks Fly Upward "We can fall no deeper than God's arms can reach, however deep we fall."William Penn ............... Recently, I got into a conversation with some folks about the appropriate age for…
Gulping Grace 