Cancer Wasn’t On My Calendar – Gratefully Celebrating The Pink This October

At the age of forty-two I was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. This year I celebrated my 14th year anniversary of being cancer free. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I am always reminded of my...

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Happy Father’s Day – However Not For Everyone

Tomorrow is the third Sunday of June and we celebrate Father’s Day. This annual holiday was officially established in the United States in1972. Actually though its origins date back to 1910 when Spokane, WA resident Sonora Smart Dodd arranged for...

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Top Ten List – Ten Months, Ten Learnings

1. Being Faithful — Above all else. In a success obsessed…bigger, better, faster, stronger culture — be it the world or the church, know what God’s calling is. Not success, but faithfulness. I am learning contentment in working the...

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A Little March Madness of My Own!

I can only joke about it now — as I watch the sunrise this Monday morning. I am grateful to be here to see it. Our conversation went like this: Really Nice Nurse: “Surgeons don’t like to work on Sundays.” (Me) Really...

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