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What Good is There in Looking Back?
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 have ALL 18 holes UPHILL, I...
3 Helps for Self-Love for Valentine’s Day
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...
Is There a Myth in God’s Love?
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...
Miracles in the Everyday
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...
Are You Using Your Power of Positivity?
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...
Do Sister Mary Vodka and Pope Francis Have Anything in Common When It Comes To Happiness?
Sister Mary Vodka and Pope Francis team up with their tips for happiness. In last week’s blog post I shared the “gratitude jar” strategy with you in order to promote happiness. I found that this daily routine: -builds positivity, - sets up the unconscious mind for a...
How to Put the Happy in this New Year
We think when we are happy then we will be grateful; but it works just the opposite. We need to surround ourselves in gratitude and then we will find happiness. I’ll demonstrate. When I first read about making a “Gratitude Jar” on Facebook, I smiled thinking “how...
3 “Musts” for your New Year’s List
As the year winds down, we usually take a quick inventory reflecting on our lives to see where there is room for improvement. With pen in hand we quickly make resolutions to reach some “ideal” in the New Year. Society, also dumps a burden on us to “better ourselves”...
SURPRISING WORDS FROM MY DOCTOR
When talking with the doctor about my next visit, he instructed, “If you have to wait more than 15 minutes, you have my permission to leave!” Have you ever in your lifetime heard that? What a pleasant surprise! I sat in amazement at this unexpected statement. As I...