personal growth
Finding Freedom in Your Choices
“Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Choosing roads has not come without pain for me. When I was […]
Read MoreSharing it All
“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains … the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. ” ~Clarence Darrow Recently, as I was going through the news feed on one of my social media pages, I came across a Facebook friend who is […]
Read MorePresents or Presence, Every Day
“I wear the chain I forged in life….I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ― Jacob Marley’s ghost; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Heading out of the house, an update from someone […]
Read MoreYou’re Grace?
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” ~Frederich Schiller “You’re Grace?” The question was not so strange. My business name contains “Grace,” and the column which holds my blog is ‘Amazed by Grace’. If either of my sons had turned out to be a daughter, her name would have been Elizabeth […]
Read MoreIt Takes a Team to find Success
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone who has made it through life completely alone. Even though a country might have one leader, he does not rule alone. A company has […]
Read MoreBreaking Free from The Rumor Mill
“The report of my death is greatly exaggerated.” Mark Twain Twain’s infamous quote came in a letter he wrote in May 1897. His cousin had been gravely ill. People must have confused the two men, and rumors began that Twain was dying and then was dead. Rumors are untruths, or sometimes partial truths, that are […]
Read MoreGot Conflict? Bring it on!
“All of your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony and you will gain peace”. Rumi Waiting at the Lion’s Club, I would stand with my mother as the line wound around until it was her turn to vote. I remember the curtain that hid us from the rest of the voters […]
Read MoreTraditions Can Be Treasures
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer “Where’s the cranberry sauce? We can’t have turkey without cranberry sauce!” It was the first Thanksgiving my mother had lived in her new home near my family, […]
Read MoreThe Best Part of Life
“The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads It struck suddenly. An active young mother fell ill to a sickness that had no name. She aged many years in the first week after losing much feeling on her left […]
Read MoreFear Not
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Twelve steps or three leaps. That’s how […]
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