Faith

Loss… Isn’t is strange how themes tend to run in our lives?  My journey of recent weeks has been one of loss.  For me personally, loss of a friendship…for three people I care deeply for, loss of a parent in these same weeks.  During this time, a dear friend, who is mourning and moving through…

In Chris Kyle’s book, American Sniper, he shares of seeing evil first hand in the hands of a woman carrying an armed grenade on the streets of Iraq moving toward the Marine presence before her. She was his first sniper kill, one that saved many of those Marine lives. I am drawn into Chris Kyle’s…

The words “endeavor to persevere” have been spoken in our home many times over the years. They come from a line in our favorite Clint Eastwood movie, The Outlaw Josie Wales. It is our family mantra to remind us to keep moving forward.  What other choice does one really have?  It is indeed difficult at…

Yes, the holiday season will soon be upon us. Thanksgiving just a couple of weeks away…falling late in November this year there will be a shorter time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We will blink and the holidays will have passed and we will be embarking on 2015. Are you as amazed as me that another…

Monday thoughts… Years ago I took a course.  It was based on the book Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill.  It was one of those pivotal books for me, going one direction and turning toward another.  I guess up until that point I hadn’t realized that I had a choice in the matter.  Days were…