Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Category: Awareness
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"How did you know that?" It was a question my sons often asked of me, continually, surprised at how I knew things they had worked hard at hiding from me. “Moms know everything,” was my pat answer, and, for the most part, when mothers give credence to their intuition, they discover they are aware of more than…
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Today I was watching a movie about Samuel Clemens. He was getting into a stagecoach and smoking a cigar. It annoyed the female passenger next to him, but instead of throwing it out the window, Samuel simply waved his hand at her and told her she’d get used to it. At first I chuckled, then…
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My husband loves TV Westerns. After a long day working he winds down with a series of old favorites: Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, or his favorite, The Virginian. If you ask him why he enjoys this genre he will tell you it’s because there is an actual story line told with no special effects,…
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Here we are at the start of Advent, and many of us are already saturated with Christmas. We’ve all talked about it, or griped about it – stores filled with Christmas before Jack-o-Lanterns were carved , round-the-clock Christmas movies on multiple TV stations before Thanksgiving turkeys were even delivered to the supermarkets, and an…
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As Sept. 29, the Feast of the Archangels, and Oct. 2, the Feast of our Guardian Angels, quickly approaches, I find myself reflecting back on the many, and unexpected, signs I have received over the last seven years from “my” angels. As Christians, we learn that we all have a Guardian Angel, given to us…
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Hate is an ugly word, an ugly emotion and an ugly ideology. It is the antithesis of natural law, the Ten Commandments and every teaching of Jesus Christ. It is responsible for murder and mayhem and the unspeakable torture and decimation of whole races. It is something I have rarely, if ever, written…
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The stories of the saints are chock full of inspiration, so when I had the chance to speak to more than 400 Catholic school teachers recently, I decided to share one of my favorite stories, attributed to an event in the life of St. Anthony, a powerful preacher and insightful teacher. When preaching in a…
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One of the things I love about my home is the small library created for me by my husband, a giftedcarpenter. Whitewashed shelves and crown molding wrap around three walls, giving me a lovely place to house my oversized collection of books. Over the years, it seems I have developed a habit of writing notes,…
God Talk and Tea 