Blog Journal

Over the last few years or so, I have had a desire to know a little something about my earthly father. He and my mother divorced when I was very young. We didn’t have any contact. My only connection to him was his name, just a name and well, his genetic line, but that’s pretty…
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Today, Feb 22nd marks the beginning of Lent, which is a holiday commemorating 40 days until Easter. Many people around the world choose to honor God and remember the season by giving up or sacrificing, a comfort which is meaningful, important to daily life, and would be sorely missed, e.g. chocolate, meat, tasty foods, television,…
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I love to travel! I might as well admit it. I love to travel. Admitting this secret desire is hard for me and I am not sure exactly why. I do know that my family would attest to my itchy feet, despite my blindness of the desire. But thinking about it now, whenever I hear…
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A very long time ago, when just starting out and learning how to master the art of caring in nursing, I was extremely fearful. There was so much to remember. How does one integrate theoretical practice, pathophysiologic processes of the body, sickness… illness and therapeutic social interaction all at the same time? Overwhelming really, to…
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“Love… twue love is what bwings us togevher today” (Movie quote, Princess Bride; 1987) Don’t you love that line and the movie, for that matter? One of our pastors’ recently reminded us of how great this movie was and still is. And he is right, “Princess Bride has to be one of the greatest movies…
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I think last week it was, I shared that I had been reading, The Hiding Place. If you haven’t read this book before, it is the life story of Corrie ten Boom and her family who lived before and during World War II. In 1939 Corrie ten Boom was 47 years old and lived with…
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I love animals… I always have and over the years, I have enjoyed the companionship of a menagerie of child hood pets, my living “lovees”. I have loved cats and dogs… budgies and cockatiels… guinea pigs, chinchillas, mice, and hamsters… sheep, jumping, popcorn baby goats, horses and feisty, rabble-rousing open-all-the-stalls-and-door-to-the-grain room, pony. This deep love…
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“What a day for a daydream… what a day for a day dreamin’ boy. I’m lost in a daydream. Dreaming bout my bundle of joy”… Do you remember that old song, sung by The Lovin’ Spoonful? Singing about daydreams is a fairly common theme, as I found out when I was looking up the lyrics…
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The last two weeks I have been fixated on the act of forgiveness. I guess, it is because I have been rereading, The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom. Gary Chapman reiterates her words by saying, “Forgiveness is the choice to love rather than demand justice”. Do you believe this? Do I believe this? To…
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When I was a little girl of maybe 4 or 5, curiosity almost did me in. It happened on a lovely summer afternoon while camping in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our campsite was chosen by my grandfather and it was gloriously pristine and beautifully breathtaking. Almost virtually isolated from the outside world of mankind, we…
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