
A Drop For Your Bucket: Self AS MUCH AS Other

2018: The Journey Toward Possibility Continues

The baby smiles!

A Drop For Your Bucket: Run Your Own Race

A Drop For Your Bucket: Run Your Own Race

A Drop For Your Bucket: Empty and Full

Happy Mother’s Day! (or, A Week of Reflections Honoring Ate Pat)
The love of a mother is a powerful force. Indeed, it is a force that can change the course of a life. We are in awe of mothers, especially our House Mothers, every day at My Refuge House!
Ate Pat (pictured here) has been a House Mother…

Who would you be?
“She gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them”
-Luke 2:7 NIV
I have experienced a deep connection to the wonder, awe, and mystery of Christmas…

Bone-tired and Soul-FULL
Perhaps I've had one too many elementary school Halloween parties in the last week, but the phrase "Bone-tired and Soul-full" is what has been coming to my mind since returning from Dallas last week. It was such an amazing and reinvigorating…

Life Lessons: aka Practicing What I Preach
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."
~Brené Brown
I like to think I’m good at “preaching” about the power and strength of empathy and vulnerability in building a healthy world. I even talk about how empathy…