by pattyptakkogutek | Mar 21, 2019 | inspiration
I’ve heard that life is like a roller coaster with all the ups and downs. I’ve heard that life is a bowl of cherries with all the sweetness and a few pits! I’ve heard that life is like a river winding its way to a bigger body of water. And of course, life is like a...
by pattyptakkogutek | Mar 18, 2019 | inspiration
We are now in the Lenten season. For the Christian churches it is a time of retreat, renewal and rededication. Looking back at Lent when I was growing up, Lent was easy. Back when, this penitential season of Lent turned its focus from the “lesser material world”, the...
by pattyptakkogutek | Mar 11, 2019 | inspiration
An old man was walking along the beach, when he noticed a little girl ahead of him picking up starfish that had been cast ashore by the storm the night before. The old man hurried to catch up to her, and asked what she was doing. “Rescuing starfish,” the young lady...
by pattyptakkogutek | Mar 1, 2019 | inspiration
“The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.” (Alan Bennett’s autobiography) Don’t you agree that the “et cetera” parts of life, those flat...
by pattyptakkogutek | Feb 25, 2019 | inspiration
The celebrating couple mingled among the guests at their 50th wedding anniversary. One of the guests pulled the “groom” aside and asked, “You make marriage look easy. Has it always been this easy?” The celebrant replied, “No, I even considered divorce and my...
