Small luxuries…. 42 years ago I had purchased flannel sheets, two queen sets- one pink and one blue for our children’s beds- and a soft gold colored king set for our bed. We had bought a 1920’s frame home in an historic district of Montgomery, AL and...
We didn’t get to visit with our Birmingham children over Christmas, but yesterday, a package arrived from our daughter. In it was a lovely “Stitches and Petals” necklace. It is a hand stitched flower on fabric mounted in a silver charm on a neck...
11/1/2020 Reminded of the true gift of hospitality….. ( and thinking of my dear hospitable friend, Pammi Jo Alsip Nevins….. “People tell me they have the gift of hospitality by which they mean that they like dinner parties. They mean that they have (or...
Today Pastor Terry Tatum preached at Lynn Haven UMC on conversion and repentance. At one point he referred to himself as one who had come to see his ego “self” as one inch big in comparison to a prior opinion of himself as a super-hero! It reminded me of a day when I...
Christie Purifoy (in Roots and Sky) writes: “I have always imagined gratitude as a kind of discipline. It is a practice. A choice. I still think this is true. However, I begin to glimpse a long-buried and misguided assumption. I have believed that the practice...
