Where The Pavement Ends
There is a place many of us have been to and wished we hadn’t. It is called “at the end of my rope.” There is another similar place called “end of the line.” ...
Category: Personal
personal life about family vacations and updates
More Than a Birthday
I was born on October 2 in a small town in Michigan. Birthdays are significant in that they represent life. We are all unique, a one of a kind miracle of God. ...
Abbey Journal – “Retreat Anyone?”
Monday, October 10, 2011 4:00pm We could not have asked for better weather. It doesn’t always work that way when you go away on retreat. I remember one year g...
Abbey Journal – “Bad Dreams & Good Cannoli”
Sunday, October 9, 2011 9:30am I got up early this morning to exercise. I felt like I needed to work off some of the butter & bread I had been consuming. ...
Abbey Journal – “Adventures”
Saturday, October 8, 2011 11:30am I slept in a bit this morning as I stayed up too late last night finishing the incredible story of Lillian Trasher. WOW! She...
Abbey Journal – “Hand of God”
Friday, October 7, 2011 8:30 am I literally woke up this morning with the song that is popular right now and playing in my mind the words, “This is where the he...
Abbey Journal – ‘Settling In”
(Last year in October, I was blessed with a gift from the ladies of our church to go on a trip to an Abbey in Wrethem, Massachusetts. I journaled everyday and ...
Honduras Journal-Day7- Milk & Cookies
5:00 am The hospital experience, yesterday, did not leave us stunned for long. Right after lunch, heads spinning or not, smiles lit up our faces and arms were ...
Honduras Journal-Day6-Stunned
No amount of preparation could adequately have equipped us for this morning’s experience. We began the morning in our usual fashion, after breakfast we had a d...
Honduras Journal-Day5-Extraordinary!
Cold showers never felt so good, yesterday when we got back from working all day on the coffee farm. It was what I now refer to as a hokey pokey style shower. ...