“Holdfast, this is most necessary in America, forget your customs and your ideals. Select a goal and pursue it with all your might…You will experience a bad time, but sooner or later you will achieve your goal. If you are neglectful, beware the wheel for fortune turns fast.
While the first hour and half I was lulled into a most festive frame of mind, the second half I felt I was suddenly thrown into the fires of hell!
You have to have fun in your marriage. Travel, hike, binge watch shows. Honor your anniversary with alone time. Play and dance to your wedding song or favorite couple’s song. Go through your wedding album together. Pray together.
Diane had stopped coming to our bookclub soon after her diagnosis. She’d had brain surgery and was on an intense course of chemotherapy. We were at a loss. Diane had been a “Booksom Babe” for 13 years. We loved her wit and her insights as we discussed literature, sipped wine and shared bits of our lives. She is only 59, we lamented. She just retired from …
Could it be that all of the lying, bad-mouthing, hate-mongering, divisiveness, aggression, lack of respect, abuse of women, failing to be better stewards of our land and people has lead us to where we are this morning?
I may have known the rules, yet I flaunted them.
“Get down!” Mom screamed all of a sudden. I felt a whoosh behind me and the next thing I knew I was witch-face-down in a pile of leaves. “Stay still!” Mom whispered pulling my sister and me under each of her arms.
Sean finds his happy place on the Emerald Isle. Who am I to stand in his way? Like the lyrics to Eddie Money’s “(I’ve got) Two Tickets to Paradise, Pack your bags we’ll leave tonight!” we stuffed two carry-ons and left…
…it dawned on me that I had just paid the $300 truck repair bill on HER CARD,
I just had to share this with you! Heard highlights of this on the radio (K-love.com) on the way to work. There’s actual medical evidence that we are made sick by holding grudges and refusing to forgive! It is so important to let it go when we are wronged for the sake of our own …
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