by Shirley | Oct 13, 2017 | 31 Day Challenge
It’s so hard to invite people into our lives. We fear we will be judged. We often wonder, “Will they find out just how weird I am and run away, or will they embrace it because they are uniquely weird in their own way, too?” “Will they look...
by Shirley | Oct 12, 2017 | 31 Day Challenge
Words have such power. They have the ability to lift someone up or bring them to their knees. Keep that in mind when deciding on how you will use them. For me, the written word brings forth healing. It enables a look deep within my soul, a place that is often...
by Shirley | Oct 11, 2017 | 31 Day Challenge
Remember me in days gone by Laying with you staring at the sky Watching the stars and wishing too For just a little more time with you Sharing our hearts in the night Holding on to each other with all our might Never wanting that moment to end Nor wanting to return to...
by Shirley | Oct 10, 2017 | 31 Day Challenge
We have all been guilty of this; not truly listening when someone is speaking, yet planning in our head what we are going to say when it is OUR turn to speak. Truth, huh? I know for me, I have definitely been guilty of just that. Yet, now I do try to listen...
by Shirley | Oct 9, 2017 | 31 Day Challenge
There was a time I thought people were a little odd or maybe a little too morbid even to plan and prepare for their own funeral. I remember as a young child walking through the cemetery with my grandmother after my great-grandmother passed away. We were there to take...