Shining Moments

Another day.    A gift I’ve been given        to invest in ways that will matter. A visit here. A greeting there. A touch of care in a world that becomes more impersonal with time. Open my eyes, I pray, to see     to really see the needs all around me. It is  all too...

Shining Moments

Don’t you ever wish you could just erase the slate and start all over? All errors, mistakes failures Gone. Years ago I’d wash the blackboard in my classroom every afternoon. Slowly washing away all the letters and numbers all the sentences and names and date. Gone....

Shining Moments

“You can go to room,” the tall guard said to me in broken English. I shook in spite of myself noticing his gun and the other guards around him there at the airport in Frankfurt. “But you cannot take her.” He motioned to my newly adopted daughter. “She cannot leave...

Shining Moments

It was one of those joyful surprises that I still remember    although many, many years have passed. One night my Dad came home from work holding a box. I had no idea what was in it     no thought at all. Hushed voices between my mom and dad. And then gathering around...

Shining Moments

Do you ever wonder how life might have turned out   if you hadn’t taken a certain step? Sometimes I wonder. I’ll never  forget how it all began. “We have so much love in our home       Well, we just got to share it. Right Mommy?” “Yes, you’re right…    ...