Good morning! Hope you are having an insight-full day. In other words, hope the light is as bright and clear inside as it is outside on this cloudless summer morning. As I posted a few days ago, I’ve been reviewing my journal entries of 2002. Doing this review work is by far the most exciting […]
Writing Prayerfully Every Day
I attended the Heart-t-Heart online meeting this morning, and as always was so blessed by the experience. Here’s what I shared about the tool (gift) of writing: Hi, Colleen here in beautiful Cache Valley, UT. I would like to share on the tool of writing and how it has become such a tool of sanity […]
Taking Time to Heal
“Don’t let the size of your external laparoscopic incisions fool you, just because they heal up quickly. The internal surgery is just as extensive as back in the olden days when the external wound was stem to stern.” Such was the advice of a wise medically trained friend (RN) to me three weeks after my […]
Perfectionism is Idealism Perverted
Perfectionism is a perversion of Idealism. Idealism can so easily mutate into perfectionism. Idealism is to revere ideals and live your life in the light of them. It is not to be used as a tool to beat yourself up because although you rever the ideal, you cannot do much more than aspire to it. […]
Time Flies
As the old saying goes, “Time flies when you’re having fun,” Or not. Either way, it waits for no one. That’s for sure. Those are my thoughts, this morning, as I emerge from a week of dealing with one dental crisis after another. First a broken tooth, leading to a lost bridge, leading to a root canal, […]
Imperfection is Inevitable
What I am learning in my late 60s about growing older: Aging is an unavoidable slide into more and more imperfect functioning. Aging requires us to let go of imperfect function and go on with living. We must forgive imperfection—and go on. Go on seeking Christ and His Spirit. Whether imperfect functioning comes because of […]
Here and Now Test Post
This is a test post. There will some others here soon. Until then, read some of the other posts. This is a test post. There will some others here soon. Until then, read some of the other posts. This is a test post. There will some others here soon. Until then, read some of the other […]