De-clutter all that keeps you from fulfilling your true and good purpose. It’s a reminder to seek who you are, banish all that prevents you from being your true best self! Some think being themselves gives them an excuse to go out and be crazy: that ‘being themselves’ means they give in to every feral inkling- […]
Category Archives: Joy
A few weeks ago, someone called a local radio station and asked the host if their pets would go to heaven. In a rather disdaining voice, the host said, “No. Your pets do not go to heaven.” I wondered if he’d actually ever read the bible scriptures which do not negate the fact of pets […]
True Story: An acquaintance said she heard someone pounding on her front door… she didn’t say knocking, she said ‘pounding!’ She went to answer it and a determined woman was there who demanded, “Where on earth did you get your mail box? I’ve been looking all over for the past 2 days and I can’t […]
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead…” Oscar Wilde ~But how would one do that, some may ask: Effort, practice, study, and determined will are the answer- It starts with the very little things: a service, a kindness, a prayer, a good deed, […]
Close your eyes and see The singular life that’s yours~ Smile in wonderment… Michele Marie
This morning I grabbed my coffee and woke up the dog to do her morning routine outside. (This is ‘Winnie’ -our miniature daschund) I accompanied her outside as lately she seems needy- she doesn’t want to be outside by herself – so I took my coffee and decided to sit outside for awhile so she’d […]
Academia: “Write of roses, daffodils, and violets, White linen, drownings, and yellow-wallpaper creeping madness” If I write: This artist will write of your painted rainbow mists– Blue mornings, pink horizons, and golden oceans! If I write: This gray moth will write of Your stained-glass-monarch-butterfly universe! If I write: This traveler will write of worlds that collide The Pacific and […]
In the race for Christmas Day success we often forget why Christmas exists. Stopped in our tracks and overwhelmed by work, we have the choice to become negative and anxious, or to see the moment as a signal reminding us to slow down and pray. The shepherds of old were keeping watch over their flock at […]
Sunday Morning The cat looks at the world Outside its window The grass looks good for stalking in For hiding till ready to pounce at dragonflies and mice Tall brown trunks with green tops that flutter Seem so delightful for climbing Flying feathered creatures and small furry scuttling things Look playful and maybe tasty too […]
In Emilie Barnes book “More Hours in My Day” I read the story of a woman who was upset because her husband wanted her to pack his lunch everyday. She didn’t want to do it. Then Emilie asked her something like, “If the Lord were to ask you to pack Him a lunch, would you do […]
Michele Marie's Poetry By The Fireside... 