I would love to share this story with you. Where it started out – not so good, was improving in the middle but the ending was incredible. It’s the story of Flora Beverley, an English fitness and health blogger who loved to run. Her first long distance races taught her many things. They taught her what she was now, yes, but she focused on what she wanted to become. She wanted to be like the runners who had incredible will-power, were fit, tall and leggy – as she describes them. Her first 3-4 km race was a disaster. She went out too fast, died, internally and externally, had to stop…

My thoughts started with a simple enquiry. “How was your afternoon?” As the words left my mouth, the person who received them burst into tears. As I gave the person a hug, I asked them “what’s up?” For the next few minutes, in between the sobs, the responder shared with me. I could not fix anything. I could not help much. But I hopefully encouraged them in the situation they were in. Next day, I sat down beside a co-worker at lunch and asked the same question “what’s up?” The same thing happened. A flurry of tears and a sharing of their frustration. Again, I tried to encourage them and…

I’ve surprised myself lately by trying to learn a new computer program and being able to actually make it work and get results. The myth of “an old dog can’t learn new tricks” is not true! It often depends upon your attitude. I might be slower in grasping the concepts and running the program. I may need some reminders on – How do I do that again? – but I’m doing ok. I’m older now and my attitude is, “Well, I’ll just give it a go. I’ve got nothing to lose.” That actually is the attitude that flows into a lot of things in my life. Following God – following…

One of my favorite programs on television is a show called ‘Blue Bloods.’ About a Catholic family, the Reagans,  where most of the members are policemen in the NYPD. The Father of the family is the Police Commissioner, the son of a former PC himself. The show has a human side to each problem, dilemma, storyline that is shown each week. The other night I was watching a re-run. The only daughter in this Catholic Family is a Lawyer – a District Attorney, Erin Reagan. She was representing a youth in a suspected robbery. She was trying to stay focused on the role of lawyer by focusing on the possible…

I noticed the top of her head first, then the rest of her body followed. She came up from underneath the round table and onto a nearby chair, surveyed what was on the table then bopped down again. She then moved to another position around the table and she repeated the process. Hopped up onto a chair, surveyed what she could see on the table and then bopped down again and so it went on till she had gone around the entire table. At this stage I had walked over to her and asked, “Willow can I help?” Willow is my three-year-old granddaughter. She looked up at me and said,…