Shining Moments

Every day we went there. Sometimes more than once. No, it wasn’t the ice cream store And no, it wasn’t the candy store. No, every day we walked down the street from the place where we stayed       to the Long Sands General Store. It’s a store like none other....

Shining Moments

Every day is a new adventure.     Every day is filled with fresh possibilities. It’s all too easy to sit in the easy chair and settle for less in life, don’t you think? Coming home from a wonderful vacation left us with not only suitcases to unpack     and lots of...

Shining Moments

All night I sat up gazing out upon the dark ocean     listening to the splash of the waves      waves that thundered and crashed. All night I thought about our beautiful time by the sea   and how very blessed we were to have had it. Why, many people never see the...

Shining Moments

It was a moment that I will never forget and still leaves me deeply touched    days later. A moment where I saw love brilliantly displayed.    Love with its shirt sleeves pushed up.    A strong love that shone brightly on an ordinary afternoon at the beach. My girls...

Shining Moments

“Let’s go to Rick’s,” I said one morning while on vacation in Maine. Both girls looked at me with questions in their eyes. “Rick’s?” “Well we can ride the trolley and it will take us right to it.” Little did I know that that would not be the case. No, we rode the...