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Hit by a creative bug I began working on a happiness jar, a jar that can be filled throughout the year with happy moments. It felt good to be creative and allow myself the time to do something I enjoyed, but within that creative flash my attention began to wander, and inside that wandering appeared thoughts of my sister.
Every year her excitement through the holidays was contagious, and my mind...

Making a list for 2016
With my word to help define the year and the intentions I aspire to achieve I approach this new year with resolute excitement. And isn't that how we should feel, excited about the prospect of what is to come, of things we can do and all the possibilities which arise in a New Year?
Working on my word for the year. If you have not tried, here and here are a few places to...

No matter what the situation is… close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now ~Deepak Chopra
It starts simple, with a wish to make a difference, and to begin…
The morning set about in a hurried rush as I dashed off to pick up my mother. Unlike my usually slow Sunday mornings, this day pushed me forward with a catch. A thirty-minute drive provides...

 
When we chose to name him Ryan, it was a name I had loved beyond the course of my pregnancy. Writing it constantly on a paper practicing each stroke.
Ryan was a sweet and quiet little man. Please and thank you was a part of every sentence he spoke. He was my partner in all things reading, play-doh and Nintendo. Loved the movies Aladdin, Jungle Book and Fern Gully. His favorite book was “If you...

Decorating for Christmas has always been a favorite for me, since the kids were really young, to surprising them when they returned from school, and after 30 years of accumulating gifts, creating crafts and hand picking my favorites, looking back, I love all the stories they have to tell.
Each year I haul up the many totes filled with holiday decorations, a workout in itself, place them on the...

“Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are washed away with tears ~unknown
As I step into the surge of water cascading from the wall, the angry stream scolds my face while I allow the anguish to cauterize me. Squeezing my eyes closed, I remain there, as if surrendering will wash away the hurt. Permitting the painful, yet soothing water to sting at my expression, while I muddle through...

 
She Let Go
by Reverend Safire Rose
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear. 
She let go of the judgments. 
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. 
She let go of the committee of indecision within her. 
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t...

When the opportunity arose to attend a retreat with 34 women I had never met it was one of the few times where I believed more in the promise of hope then the dread of fear, and decided to leap.
Knowing there was a cushion of months before having to follow through, it was often easy to say yes as I looked towards a future plan, but somehow, with this adventure, I still felt courage drawing me in.
The...

There are times when I am overwhelmed with grief, with the loss that has occurred in my life, leaving a scar that will never heal…
On September 17, 2003 my brother Joe died in surgery when they were trying to repair an aneurysm in the back of his brain. And even though twelve years have gone by, I can still remember it like yesterday.
The house was quiet with Joel and Zach off camping and Chelsea...