"It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving."  – Mother Teresa   I love to shop, but all the shopping that must be...

"You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift."  –...

"Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the...

"Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus...

“ Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story." – Mason Cooley   Halloween is just a few days away. There are many different thoughts...

It has been a couple of years since I published my blog about why sunflowers are so important to me. I was going to rerun the blog, but I...

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”  - Søren Kierkegaard. Very soon, it will be fall. Fall is my...

"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."  - Jean-Paul Sartre.   How often have we heard the phrase “I’m bored?” As a...

“ Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ” - John Diamond (British Journalist)   The word cancer can be very scary. It is referred to in many...

"Waiting for something makes it more gratifying when it finally happens."   - Doug Coupland How many of you like to wait? Waiting is part...

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."  – John Dewey The first day of school is a day that many children...

Emma Watson: "I feel like I've been given a lot of embarrassing moments. But I'm actually quite comfortable with them, so they don't...

Maya Angelou: "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." How...

Heraclitus: "The only constant in life is change." Life continually changes!! Anyone who knows me knows that I don't do well with change....

C.S. Lewis: "Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our...

Haruki Murakami: "When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." As...

Oscar Wilde: "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." The above quote is accurate. I can't count the...

Robin Williams: "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel...

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde. Many of us go through life on autopilot. We follow a schedule, do what is...

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." -Pablo Picasso Growing up, I loved to color until I...