Celebrating 10 Years

as an author, and this book is my crowning achievement.  Thanking Everyone who has helped me along the way (You know who you are)!

A Movie and My Character

Is it surprising at all that "It's a Wonderful Life" is my favorite movie? Like George Bailey, I look mostly toward "my" ideas, "my" dreams, "my" desires for my life. I feel frustrated, and sometimes afraid, when "my" plans are thwarted. Often it's only through other people that I finally find the means and the grace to be truly unselfish, to see others' needs, to give at my own expense. I forget that God/Love has His ideas, His dreams, His desires for my life. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:9). His plan for me can be nothing but the highest, the best, the most life-giving and joyful, even though I might be unable to see or feel it. Emmanuel, please grant me the grace to always surrender with trust and hope to Your plan for me as You mold me into who You want me to be.  Amen.