The holidays are here, and my anxiety has started. I read recently that the rifts and craters in our families and relationships are magnified during the holiday season. Add to that the grief from changes in our lives during the year and stir in the constant push to buy, buy, buy, and to have our… Continue reading Contented
Tag: Thanksgiving
Grateful for What is There
What do you see when you look at this picture—a vase or two faces? Psychologists say that the way we process optical illusions gives a clue to our creativity and intelligence. I just know that every time I blink, the picture changes. What we see in the picture depends on which part we are seeing—… Continue reading Grateful for What is There
Are you thankful or grateful?
It’s Thanksgiving week and time to focus on what we are thankful for. The key word at my church the last month has been gratitude. Because I’m a ‘word nerd’, I got to thinking — what’s the difference between gratitude and thankfulness? Weuse them interchangeably and the dictionary lists them as synonyms, but theymust have… Continue reading Are you thankful or grateful?
Under the Magnolia Tree 