A Civil War Prayer
For Thanksgiving: The prayer of an unknown confederate soldier. He speaks the kinds of blessings that most of us aren't brave enough to request. .Like the unknown soldier, may you discover your own richest blessings in unspoken prayers. Happy Holiday.~kleigh. Soldier's Graves at the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), 1861.."I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might

A New Moon
This just in ...Tuesday, 6:30pm, Thanksgiving Break.Tonight, we were pondering going to a very popular teen girl flick, newly released in theaters this week. Isaac (14) wanted to go to the movie, but then he discovered that he had to go with his parents and explained (this is a direct quote):"this could be socially destructive to my ego." As a solution, he requested that we go to a theater that

What Might Have Been
Thinking about gratitude...A fearsome list of possibilities, and a thankful prayer about things unseen. Normally this season is about the expression of thanks for tangible current blessings, and rememberance of obvious blessings past. Gratefulness typically does not focus on what we don't possess or what could have been. Those items go in the life file marked "Regret." However, I'm creating a new

Gratitude
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.~William Arthur WardGratitude is the memory of the heart.~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or

Clicks and Scribbles
It's been a crazy couple of weeks with one thing after the next. Pages of my random scribbles and notes are waiting to be deciphered. They are my only hope of remembering much of anything that zoomed by these last days. I'm not kidding. My brain acquired a small memory leak when I hit 40. According to Benjamin Franklin, "A small leak can sink a great ship." So I'm thinking my prognosis is not