A TIME TO FOCUS

FOCUS: a point of concentration. Being able to bring things into focus is difficult when your world is suddenly turned topsy turvy as all of us are experiencing with the Corona-Virus. You don't know where to focus first. The things that were so routine have become non-essential. All of a sudden all you want to [...]

A SEASON TO TREASURE RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships change with every season. Friends that were close in those younger years don't always remain close as our season in life changes. When we move, relationships change as well. We find ourselves making new friends and forming new relationships. In order for relationships to remain they have to change as you change. I am [...]

Something I Would Tell My Younger Self:

Build on Life's Challenges In 2019 I wrote a blog entitled "Something I Would Tell My Younger Self: Prioritize the "S" Word in Your Marriage. Since that blog I have thought of other things I wish I would have known in my 'younger seasons'. Every season in life has it's good times and it's not [...]

Weight Control after 50: Some tips that help me

First of all I need to make sure you know I don't have this huge weight loss testimony and I am not saying I know everything about loosing weight. I can say I have lost hundreds of pounds ........ the same 10 to 20 pounds over and over again! Dieting wasn't foreign to me as [...]

IS IT TOO LATE TO FIND PURPOSE?

No matter what age or season we find ourselves statistics will suggest we have missed the opportunity to be our best. For instance, if you didn't learn a second language by ages 7 or 8 it will definitely be too difficult now. If you didn't run a marathon at age 28 then.....good luck! It's interesting [...]

2020: A YEAR TO ANTICIPATE

Wouldn't you just love to be able to plan your future? Much of it we have no control over, even though our choices in life can produce results we don't like to admit we had any responsibility for. If you are a Believer in Christ you can be sure of your life after this life [...]

Making Every Holiday Special in Every Season

I love this week between Christmas and New Years. It gives me time to get my house back in order and to relax and enjoy the memories of the holiday along with wondering what this next year will bring. When my kids were at home and especially when they were little I remember watching them [...]

IT’S ONLY A SEASON

Lately I have had to remind myself "it's only a season". Seasons don't last forever. I am one that always dreaded the end of Summer, knowing that the cold was just around the corner. Now that I am in Florida and Summer is pretty much all year I find myself fondly remembering the cool days [...]

WHAT A CHANGE OF VIEW CAN DO……FOR YOU!

After being gone from home for over a month I can honestly say, "There is no place like home." It's not really about the great view from the window of my home but a sense of peace and contentedness. The change I want to talk about today isn't so much visual, it has to do [...]

SOMETHING I WOULD TELL MY YOUNGER SELF

PRIORITIZE THE "S" WORD IN YOUR MARRIAGE My 'younger self' and my fiance! Taken in 1974 at a Fair and made into a button I loved to wear! Ah ha....I got your attention! The "S" word I'm talking about is one that is rarely used in our generation. In fact, it is seen as weakness [...]