Blogging Through the Seasons

“Just as Jesus bore the scars of his death, may the words of my past have a redeemed place in my future.” “If you could go to a point in your past, what would you do differently?” These are the kind of musings I come up with on my way to work every morning. My...

“May I have the courage to trust, even knowing how frail human promises can be.” It all started in 1970. I had three travel agency offices already, but I wanted to expand. My goal was to take over the travel department of the General Conference of Seventh-day...

Being 16, my parents would NEVER allow me to date. However, I did experience a heartbreak that was just as painful. I invested my entire high school career thus far in a program that was so important to me. Being involved in it uniquely grew my passion for leadership...

“May I have the wisdom and patience to let questions planted in me wait, rest, and germinate rather than anxiously harvest answers whose season has not come.” We have a framed picture of Jesus planting seeds and it reads, “Tomorrow’s flowers grow from the seeds we...

I realize the older I get and the more families I encounter in my profession, that my siblings and I were extremely blessed to have always known unquestionably that we were loved by our parents. And, since our grandparents lived with us for awhile in our young lives,...

“Over the years I have felt the truest, purest love – the love of God, really, I imagine that’s what God’s love feels like – is the love that comes from your dog.” Oprah Winfrey The other day as I went through my routine of dropping the kids off at school...