Category: Essays

  • When you are the ‘only’. . . it takes just one. . .

    So Who Cares. . . Nobody I guess. . . Except you do. . . All it takes is just one I hear, to look for the sun to rise each morning. . to look at the moon at night and wonder, where home is. . . to keep the world turning on its axis.…

  • When Each Day Is A Victory . . . and our hands touch. . . .

    Oftentimes we wish for words to say the wonderful phrase, that gives motive or impetus to a frame of mind that catapults our committed to things of highest value.  Yet there may be no words to say what needs be said.  What is upfront is already between the eyes. I remember looking in the mirror…

  • Among the earth’s persons. . racing toward his truth. . .

      We were sitting at dinner on the Farm visiting with my beloved burly brothers.  I had been the first sister amid 5 brothers born and never doubted their love.  They were my introduction to the world of men and they could do everything. And when I first talked with words of meaning, I announced…

  • You are invited. Come, we eat. . . .

    We become what we feed our mind.   ***** Become the person you want to meet coming down the street. ***** When you form the question, you already know the answer because you form the question. ***** Hopefully the added years bring thoughtful conclusions.  You feed your mind what? ***** It is not said that understanding…

  • All My Heart Required. . . .thank you . . .

  • Is However Long We’ll Talk. . . Psalms of Love. . .

      However long. . . . Coming into a chosen family will be what someone will call a misfit.  And the label will stick.  This often is a child with a need to know everything and talk.   There will not be anyone to listen.  Because there will be other children, work to do, buses to…

  • It Is A Fact. . . Know It. . .

      Believe because it is true. . . . . As we approach Valentine’s Day, to all who are bereft and do not or have not known love, what is missed is something you have known somewhere at some time else you would not know you miss it. One day it will be yours again.   It will…

  • My God Watches Me. . .

    I had a journal entry I looked at that had hostility levied on differences in us and I thought it time to look at what unites as human beings.  It is a simple character attribute. When we were children our parents expected we would be truth tellers.  We were asked the simple question. .  brushed…

  • In Conference. . . .when the world sleeps. . . .

      In Conference. . . .with the Sages.  . . From a journal entry of January 1993 where I had been in the midst of researching Jesus . .the teacher asked me to put my thoughts down. . . (It was a stressful time in our lives.  I wrote the following) Jesus took on a…

  • A Time In The Heart. . .

      (A grandson wanted me to start blogging and set me up in 2011 and designed the blog.    I posted the foreword from Kiss The Moon in September of 2012 because he thought it was important that readers know how and why I write. There are new readers not familiar with my writing so I…