Minutes to Moments

My dear friend Renee is facing her first born headed off to college.  Here are some of her thoughts, in her own words.  Dear reader, can you relate?:
My oldest daughter has been talking about how much she wants to leave home since she was in the third grade.  She is both blessed and cursed with [...]

Martha Beck’s wonderful essay on “true power” is on Oprah’s website now.  Here’s one gem:
FEAR
Always feels bad
Motivates grasping
Seizes control
Insists on certainty
Needs everything
LOVE
Always feels good
Motivates liberation
Relaxes control
Accepts uncertainty
Needs nothing

Frederick Buechner on the Transfiguration:  “Even with us something like that happens once in a while.  The face of a man walking his child in the park, of a woman picking peas in the garden, of sometimes even the unlikeliest person listening to a concert, say, or standing barefoot in the sand watching the waves [...]

We wait so that we may know that all does not originate with ourselves, not even the meaning of our lives.  Anthony Padovano
They called it “secondary infertility,” but it was really a lesson in faith.
A few years after our sweet Abby was born, Steve and I decided to have another child.  The timing seemed right:  [...]