by pattyptakkogutek | Feb 17, 2015 | inspiration
Admonishments come in from everywhere: “Don’t look back”. “There is no good wallowing in the past”. But the past can bring a light into the present. But how? Trudging up the fairway to the elevated green pondering how they could possibly...
by pattyptakkogutek | Feb 9, 2015 | inspiration
Do you love yourself as much as God does? Does loving yourself sound selfish to you? Picking individual petals off of a daisy counting off, “Love me, love me not” is a silly little game we used to play as children to determine if some “heart-throb” of the week, did...
by pattyptakkogutek | Feb 3, 2015 | inspiration
As the song goes, love indeed is “Many A Splendid Thing”, especially during this month of February. With love in the air, we are bombarded with candied hearts carrying love messages and Cupids shooting love arrows! Flowers, valentines, and chocolates all feed into...
by pattyptakkogutek | Jan 27, 2015 | inspiration
Miracles happen all around us, if we pay attention to them or not. As a teacher in San Diego I have taken numerous classes on whale watching field trips, so when Joe and I were planning our itinerary on our Hawaii vacation, the whale watching adventure did not appear...
by pattyptakkogutek | Jan 20, 2015 | Guilt-Free Tips, inspiration
Change your thoughts…change the world! Thoughts are powerful….for the good or not so good. Your thoughts affect your everyday life…how you care for yourself, what you do with your hours during day, how you speak, etc. Your thoughts affect not only you, but others...
by pattyptakkogutek | Feb 18, 2014 | inspiration
As the Olympic flame burns in Sochi Russia we can take some spiritual notes. The fear of failure has been conquered. The competitors not only fly through the air at recording breaking speeds and hurl their bodies performing dangerous feats causing me to gasp for...
