by pattyptakkogutek | Aug 15, 2016 | inspiration
Do you look at the past as a long lost friend, yearning for the “good old days”? Do you pine for the days past when you physically, mentally, emotionally were at the “top of your game”, in your mind? Physically you could run miles before tiring. Mentally you could...
by pattyptakkogutek | Aug 8, 2016 | inspiration
Do you ever feel like you are in a rut, plodding through the same thing, day in and day out? Perhaps you feel like a rat running in his little treadmill of everyday activities, responsibilities, and tasks to accomplish? It may be that those lofty goals of joyful...
by pattyptakkogutek | Aug 2, 2016 | inspiration
Summer is here and so is the anticipation of summer vacations. After the humdrum routine of work pressures, family responsibilities, and checking off the daily “to-do” lists, we all need a break. We eagerly yearn for the carefree, schedule free, diet-free, throw your...
by pattyptakkogutek | Jul 26, 2016 | inspiration
People seem “edgy”, short tempered! Maybe the testy, hot, “dog days of summer” are taking their toll…. Maybe the adverse political environment is spilling over into our everyday lives….. Maybe our overcrowded calendar brings undue and unreasonable pressure upon us…....
by pattyptakkogutek | Jul 18, 2016 | inspiration
Just once I’d like to wake up and really find “Peace On Earth”. I pray for it, sing out about it, and scurry around trying to find “peace on earth”. Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your...
by pattyptakkogutek | Jul 12, 2016 | inspiration
Every day I pray, “Not my will, but thine be done”. Many times God’s will and mine are juxtaposed leaving me struggling with “why”. I think the simple answer can be found in two straight lines. Many people wear a cross around their neck. Some are plain and simple in...