BLAME OR SURRENDER?

You know how when something doesn’t work out it is so easy to lay blame on someone or something else? Recently I quit my job because I just couldn’t make any money at that company. I thought about my jobs that I have had in nursing and I realized I was...

WISDOM PASSED ON

My mother is the kind of woman who was constantly giving unwanted wisdom. She would stick her nose in everywhere and tell me what I was doing wrong. I used to get so irritated with her. Now I wish I had listened more to her. She was not always right but she had a lot...

Dinner with a friend

I went to dinner tonight with a good friend. I had heard that she was going through a difficult time with her marriage and during dinner she admitted a divorce was on the horizon for her. We chatted about life in general and I told her my thoughts on a second...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

I have blogged quite a bit lately about my dad passing away. I don’t mean to go on and on about it as if it is the latest news story but there is just one more thing I need to say. That is, that sometimes it takes a village to process grief. I had over fifty...

THE VISITATION

I had held it together. During the visitation, I had shed few tears for my father. It wasn’t that I didn’t love him it is just that I was ready to release him to God. His passing was something that was expected and I told him how much I valued and loved...