Posts Tagged ‘Personal Growth’
Settling the Family Estate Without a Family Feud
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein We grown children will not be able to control the exact experience we encounter when it comes to the passing of our parents. What we can control is how we handle it. My father and mother…
Read MoreOur Prayer Bowl
I have had a decorative glass bowl in our living room for a long time. It has been an empty vessel for many of these years. It was simply used to grace our home, adding some color to the room. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but I do know why we began to…
Read MoreA New Kind of New Year’s Resolutions
How many years have we made our resolutions, well-meaning though they may be, only to break them, to forget them, to let them slip away from our minds, or just rebelliously change our minds, to change at all? This year I’ve got a great idea. Why don’t we try making some new kinds of resolutions…
Read MoreEver Changing Ways
Have you thought about how much the ways we communicate have changed over the years? Take for example my husband’s birth in Louisiana, in 1952. His parents living in Miami, would not choose to make a long distance call. Rather they would send a Western Union telegram to announce this event. I value this very…
Read MoreLessons I’ve Learned from My Daughters
Often times, as we raise our children, we ourselves go through growth. I certainly can attest to doing much growing up during those years of raising our two daughters. When I think of my life with my two, and with my husband, I know without a doubt that I have gained some very valuable schooling…
Read MoreRelationshifts
Something happens in our most important relationships. A couple gets married, and forms a new bond. They may become parents. No longer just two, but now they shift to being a family. Parents raise their children. The children shift into adulthood and independence. They leave home. Parents must let go and make that uncomfortable shift,…
Read MoreFinding Your Creativity
Where does creativity begin? Is it born, or is it bred into us? Do we wake up one morning painting, or do we find it woven into our lives as we mature? My dad had an engineer’s mind and training. Among the eight of us children, I was a little shadow, lurking at the edge…
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