“If it is meant to serve you, and it doesn’t, replace it. Daily things like your bag, your water bottle, your socks. Find ones you actually like using.” Alissa Gulin, Laurel, Md “We tend to forget that baby steps still move us forward.” Becki Moss, Sarasota, Fl “Good conversations have lots of doorknobs.” Samantha Good, Portland, Or “Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.” Lyn Banghard, Easton, Md. “Even in the hardest of times, you…
“If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each one of us, there is a desert to travel. A…
“I open the door. The gorgeous guest from afar sweeps in. In her hands are her gifts–the gifts of hours and far-seeing moments, the gift of mornings and evenings, the gift of spring and summer, the gift of autumn and winter. She must have searched the heavens for boons so rare.” Abbie Graham “December’s gifts–custom, ceremony, celebration, consecration–come to us wrapped up, not in tissue and ribbons, but in cherished memories. This is the month of miracles. The oil that burns…