10 Tips for a Meaningful Christmas

Christmas is less than a week away.  Based on the Facebook status updates racing through my feed, the theme of these last few days is RUSH. Rush to buy. Rush to wrap. Rush to bake. Rush to give. Rush to clean. Rush to pack. Rush to go. Rush. It's hard to find meaningful when you are rushing.  {Honestly, it's hard to find the car keys in the midst of the rush!}  Somehow Advent - the season of anticipation - has become Accelerate - the season of too many irons in the fire. Perhaps, Dr. ... [Read More]

When Words Don’t Come

Nothing. I want to write, to convey all the mixed up thoughts running through my mind. But somehow the words are not coming. This rarely happens to me ... I always have something to say. But today ... nothing. Blank pages haunt me.   Five days of no blog posts scare me. What if the words are gone? Just typing that terrifies me.   Writing, speaking, articulating ... that's my thing.   That's how I describe myself.   How I define myself. If the words are gone, what is left? Today is rainy and ... [Read More]

The Season of Stillness

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.  ~ Teresa of Avila Spinning around me, the whole world seems to be moving in fast forward.  I find myself resisting the pull of that frantic pace.  Mornings of slow coffee sipping, afternoons of quiet solitude, and evenings of reading have become my routine. The calendar still beckons with Nutcracker rehearsals, Christmas festival preparations, class parties, and the list that never seems to end.  But this year, I'm choosing ... [Read More]