Author: Cris and Maria (Page 1 of 24)

Summer Sunday: Highlights of Our Summer

Incredibly, summer is already almost over. Where does the time go . . . We have been busy with our families, our mother, our homes, our projects. Hopefully, you were able to relax a bit and enjoy your summer, with some alone time, or with family and friends.

The first week of September is like New Years Lite. It marks the start of a new school year, but even for those of us who are not students or teachers or a parent of a student or have anything to do with the school calendar, September still feels like a new beginning. It’s the time to organize your desk, start some new routines, or maybe start a new project. It’s also a time to look back and think about what has been accomplished so far.

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

A picture of a pink rose

Isn’t this gorgeous?! A satiny, delicate pink rose atop a stem that seems almost too narrow to support this expanding beautiful blossom sitting on my kitchen window sill. I am grateful that it is once again blooming for me and its companion should be fully opening soon. The plant came close to withering away and dying soon after I got it, but I have been nurturing it, like a friendship, hoping that it would thrive beside my mostly sunny window.

I am also choosing to see this lovely bloom as a sign of hope, as a sign that I should never give up on my dreams. If dreams are nurtured, not neglected so that eventually they wither away, maybe they really can come true. – Maria

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