Unfortunately he’d fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.
She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.
Women can’t tell east from west, so you use these ridiculous ways of getting from one place to another.” “Ridiculous means? What exactly are you talking about?” “If you must know, a woman gives instructions to take a right at the beauty parlor on Main Street, and a man will tell you to head east.” “It’s the same thing, isn’t it?” “No, it isn’t,” Kyle argued. “Men don’t notice things like beauty parlors or red mailboxes.
It started to snow – light flakes that drifted down from the heavens like small feathers released from angel pillows.
My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one’s point across.
Then, in the tranquility of church on Christmas Eve, everything had come into perspective for Cait. There had been crowds and rudeness that first Christmas, too, she reasoned. Yet in the midst of that confusion had come joy and peace and love.
The thing I’ve learned – and trust me, I’m no expert- is that forgiveness isn’t a gift we give the offender. It’s something we do for ourselves.
I’m late,” she told him.
December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.
Dreams remain only wisps of enjoyable but useless imagination if we don’t give them an anchor to hold to. If we don’t make them determined goals. Faith in God is that anchor. It’s what enables that dream to come off the shelf and sit right down in front of us.
Furious, she grabbed his tie and jerked him into the apartment. “You can come inside,” she said.
The mushrooms were grown in the shadow of the Washington rainforest, hand-picked by altar boys.
As the spiritual coordinator for this part of Tacoma, Celeste Chapeaux had been assigned to oversee Harry.
As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, “What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?” “All yours,” Steve assured her.
You know if it’d been three wise women searching for the newborn babe, they would have asked for directions much sooner, found the stable, swept it out, and had a meal waiting by the time Mary and Joseph arrived.
Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising – taking care of myself emotionally and physically.
Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I’ll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. – Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings.
Ellie,” Phillip added forcefully. “Sit down and keep your mouth closed for once in your life. Our daughter loves a good man.
Men, especially sick ones, are the biggest babies on earth,” Barbara said wryly. “They get a little virus and think someone should rush in to make a documentary about their life-threatening condition. My advice to you is let him wallow in his misery all by himself.
The sunlight had broken through the trees and landed on her like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.