Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Category: Relationships
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A mother never knows just how much attention her children are paying to her, but every once in a while she discovers they know her better than she thinks they do. That was my discovery when my son, an eighth grade language arts teacher sent me an email explaining that they were writing memoirs in…
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“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” – so wrote the renowned Southern author Flannery O’Connor some 60 years ago in what is today considered among the best American short stories ever written. When I was young, I found it macabre – a story of evil men gunning down an entire family because that’s what…
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As a Catholic, I have a confession to make. I sometimes watch televangelists. While there are many things that make me uncomfortable about this style of evangelizing, I have always felt it would be arrogant, and foolish, of me to suggest that God limits the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to only those of one…
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Imagine a scene in the labor and delivery floor of the local hospital. A young wife and her husband have just delivered their first child. They look down with love at the tiny infant wrapped in a small pink blanket. Beaming, the mother says, “Isn’t she just the most mediocre baby you have ever seen?”…
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Parents of young children know the experience of trying to leave them alone to play while the parent tries to get some work done in another room. Without fail, even if a child is playing happily, the child will leave their toys and follow the parent from place to place, often without saying a word,…
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Having lived in a home with multiple teenagers, I can say unequivocally that they have a unique way of enlightening parents to their own version of the truth. In my house, I very often got the “quote.” A favorite among them, especially when asked to explain some errant behavior, was, “What can I say, I…
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My son and daughter-in-law are animal lovers, and even before they moved in to their new house, with lots of space and a great yard, they were fostering the biggest Great Dane I have ever seen, the Snuffleupagus of Great Danes, Pluto. They made room for him in their apartment, along with Evie, an adorable…
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On the shore at the bay there is a jungle gym area where my daily visits usually include a lesson learned in observing children at play. Yesterday’s lesson was fit for America’s Funniest Home Videos. A group of seven young children between the ages of two and eight were having a great time climbing the plastic…
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“Make yourself useful.” That was my father’s favorite phrase for reminding me that being part of a family carried responsibilities. Child or not, I could, and should, certainly contribute by setting and cleaning off the table, dusting the furniture, putting away groceries, and keeping my room at least clean enough that the health department wouldn’t…
God Talk and Tea 