Dear Friends, Today I’m writing a letter to you as we embark on this next phase of our lives. I’ve been blogging here off and on for the past three years, and you have been here with me in the ups and downs of our lives. Thank you for that. Thank you for your comments, […]
The Long-Awaited Move
Over the last few years or so, we have talked about moving back to Maryland. Although we lived close to my husband’s wonderful family in Ohio, I had a very strong desire to move back to the area where I grew up. It’s been one of those things that you keep anticipating, but then aren’t […]
Life Lessons: Yearning to Belong – Part 2
Life Lessons: Yearning to Belong – Part 2: Belonging This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible and eternal heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced, and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal […]
Life Lessons: Yearning to Belong – Part 1
(Reflections on life that were inspired by the book, “Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong” by John O’Donohue) Yearning to Belong – Part 1: Background Story Read this quote, and tell me you didn’t just have an “ah-ha!” moment… “The hunger to belong is at the heart of our nature. Cut off from others, […]