The Art of Doing Nothing, i.e. Stillness
Over a decade ago a friend bought me The Art of Doing Nothing as a gift. I am sure some series of conversations prompted her to make the purchase. It took me another year or so to finally read the
The Gift
I CANNOT believe it is May already! Where has time gone? It seems unreal that I have been abroad for 3 and a half months. So much has happened! Sidebar: I find it both fascinating and frightening that more transformation
All I Have I Give Freely
On last week one of my closest friends arrived to visit me in the U.K. Her visit occurs on the culmination of five other friends “crossing the pond” to explore my temporary home and see a few new sights. While
The Patient Potter …
Image from: https://www.poemsbycc.com/ThePotter.html In one of my previous posts, I referenced a number of interviews I listened to on YouTube. Today’s blog post was inspired by an interview conducted by Dr. Frank Thomas with Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland: https://youtu.be/9eQYGSLkEeE. Have you ever
A New Thing
Photo taken from: http://www.danaarcuri.com/blog/god-is-doing-a-new-thing - also a great post! I visited Atlanta for the first time while I was in high school participating in a college tour – from that moment I knew I wanted to attend college there. A few
Cultivating A Beautiful Mind
Photo taken from: https://www.hppr.org/post/growing-high-plains-cultivate-your-mind-2017 My friends know that when I arrived in the UK one of my major annoyances was having limited WiFi (I’ve written about how I learned to embrace this). I was then annoyed by my access – or
A Heart to Serve
There are mornings like today when I wake up and my heart is overwhelmed with a desire for service. I’ve always known that service means a lot to me: helping others; sharing of whatever resources I could; making sure that
#GoalsForGod
I have several journals – at this time I have about five in various places around my home and office. I use them all! They serve different purposes and are of different sizes and quality. Yesterday, I thumbed through one
The Danger of Being Un-Boxed
Around the age of 18 or so (a LONG time ago :-)) I realized how much I despised being boxed in. I hated that people made assumptions about me or my lifestyle based on how I looked, or where I
On Faith and Fitness: My Prelude to 40
Image taken from: https://crystalstine.me/ On September 4th of last year I wrote a blog post introducing you all to what I’d planned to be a series of posts counting down to my 40th birthday. Just a few weeks later, we were