Lamentations 3:41a – Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven.Hands have been of particular interest to me since the time that the Lord really got my attention and I rededicated my life to him in 1992. About that same time a song by Babbie Mason...
When I have attended United Methodist events, the prayer rooms all seem to have a common feature- a labyrinth. It seems that some with a spiritual bent all seem to think that we should be walking the labyrinth to connect with God.”The term labyrinth is often...
While in a psychology class, one of the assignments was to draw a picture that represented one’s life. I drew the doodle shown here. The hand with the heart represents, for me, God’s love and providential work in my life. The other symbols are medical...
From a journal entry 12/27/2001:It’s quite nippy today. I’ve put out birdseed and there’s a lot of squawking and chirpping and coming and going. I had fretted over the absence of birds, especially cardinals recently, thinking the cats might have...
A few days ago I stopped at a little antique shop along Hwy 231 in Cottondale, Florida, that I enjoy browsing from time to time. It is owned by Deborah Bush, a Cherokee Indian woman about my age. We enjoy chatting and laughing about memories of things from our youth...
Some counseling theories are based on exploring “early recollections” of clients in an attempt to relate them to current attitudes, values, fears, feelings, or behaviors. When asked about earliest memories in a recent class on counseling theories, I...
