Morning Briefings

I've heard people say, 'Thank goodness 2020 is behind us - its a New Year!' In my mind, I think, 'What has really changed, having turned...

Only God can take your checkered past, your mistakes and even failures and turn them into something good. Only God can take the...

It is as vivid as yesterday. I walked into the hair salon and as I waited for my ‘girl’ to get to me, I again opened the little book...

especially when life does not make sense. New Year, 2021 Learning to surf is a lot of work - paddling out - waiting, learning balance -...

Think well…grow your mind. It doesn’t matter whether you are a businessperson, at­-home mother, engineer, retired oil man or teacher—the...

We have within these most incredible God-given brains, the capacity to think well, dream bigand grow far beyond the mediocrity for which...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all ~ Helen Keller. Choosing how we spend our hours and days is a luxury. Personally, I...

Gabriel's concluding comment to Mary is powerful: Nothing is impossible with God1 ...

Can an all holy God also be scandalous? Aren't those terms mutually exclusive? If we look at the ancestry of Jesus Christ, there are some...

Hanging ornaments on my Christmas tree sure brings back memories. Diligently, I am trying to thank God for the memories rather than ache...

"Hello, Mary." The two words make me smile because my first name is Mary . . . Mary Christine. "Ave, Maria", the angel Gabriel spoke to...