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Spiritual Growth: My Quiet Time

By Margo, on August 20th, 2009%

My quiet time in the morning is totally sacred to me.  I come out into my screened room with my books of reflective thoughts and I sit with God.  This is the most important part of my day.  It helps to set the tone of my heart, soul, and mind and prepares me for the day ahead.

When I am in my screened room I am surrounded by nature.  There is my garden, which I tend to in the best fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants fashion, with its green grass and beds full of bright nodding flowers.  The old WalMart gazebo wrought-iron frame sits . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: My Quiet Time

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Shared Wisdom: Gratitude, Love, Selflessness

By Margo, on August 18th, 2009%

 

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don’t.  Recognizing the treasure in the simple – a child’s hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset.  (Max Lucado)

When we find someone who surpasses us, be thankful that such gifts are in our midst, a public banquet to which we are all invited.  (Dale E. Turner)

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.    (Anne Morrow Lindberg)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or . . . → Read More: Shared Wisdom: Gratitude, Love, Selflessness

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Vignettes: Signor Ludovic’s Story

By Margo, on August 17th, 2009%

I practiced as a massage therapist in Italy for about seven years.  I came to Signor Ludovic via a local parish priest, Don Rafaele.  My husband and I would occasionally go to the little Italian church for Mass and Don Rafaele told the story of Signor Ludovic to illustrate the gospel story in his sermon one Sunday.

Signor Ludovic was a Local farmer, a man of the earth with no formal education.  He had worked the land all his life and raised eight children.  Suddenly, at age seventy, he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and confined to . . . → Read More: Vignettes: Signor Ludovic’s Story

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