Dear Helen,I am reading a series of articles about kids raised without emotional support. In one of the articles it is said that the one total necessity for a child to grow up healthy, is that the child has to have a person that he or she can absolutely trust. Neither you nor I had … More On Being a Kind Parent To Myself
I don’t think I can deal with harmful activities because they are wrong or sinful. I think the law provokes sin as in Romans. Paul says to Timothy “All things are lawful but all things are not expedient’. I have never heard that verse preached on. God says be holy for I am holy. Surely … More An Invitation To Be Holy
Patient Faith…..I like the idea of faith being that which keeps me doing the right thing even in situations where It seems like I can not hope to live long enough to see results for which I hope. That kind of faith helps me do the right thing and depend on my Higher Power to … More Patient Faith
I don’t think I can deal with harmful activities because they are wrong or sinful. I think the law provokes sin as in Romans. Paul says to Timothy “All things are lawful but all things are not expedient’. I have never heard that verse preached on. God says be holy for I am holy. Surely … More Invitation to Holiness
I enjoyed Santa Claus when I was a boy and also when I raised my own four daughters. One of favorite Santa stories was how my nephew Larry got sent home form his third grade class because he had made his classmates cry by insisting repeatedly that there there was no Santa Claus. The only … More Thoughts on Santa
What’s Wrong with Norman Rockwell…..Norman Rockwell was an artist who became the cover illustrator for the magazine “The Saturday Evening Post back in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known for creating magazine covers that were sweet, nostalgic, idealized snapshots of American life. A few years back at a meeting I heard a woman say … More Norman Rockwell And Me
repost…The Old Globe And St Paul’s Cathedral……A few years ago I took an incredible trip with my sister Evelyn. We attended the C. S. Lewis Lecture’s at Oxford University and did some magnificent sightseeing under the guidance of my good nephew Tim. In London, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral and then walked across the bridge … More May Poppins and St Paul’s
