Do you remember the wonderful old Dr. Seuss book, Are You My Mother?, about the little birdie that was asking everything under the sun if it was it’s mother?  The bird was on a quest for Mom, and on the way he thought that perhaps she was a dog, a bulldozer, a big [...]

    I have never really thought too much about the expression “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater”, though I have used it before plenty of times, and there have even been times I’ve felt like the baby!   As I think more about it and look at images of adorable babies, I [...]

    I saw a video the other day where in the credits it said, “In honor of life’s irrepressible urge to thrive.”  Man that leapt off the screen at me!   What powerful urgent compelling words!   I believe with all my heart that we are here to thrive.  And I realize there are [...]

      A couple of weeks ago this old song just “randomly” popped into my mind…..more like I was suddenly singing it.  It stopped me in my tracks, and I found myself wondering why I was singing it.  The song is called Refiner’s Fire, and it’s a prayer to be refined like gold, like [...]