Tag: Edward Hays

• A Roundtable Discussion that Makes My Day

  Imagine starting your day almost every morning in a roundtable discussion with six other people plus yourself. In my case, the people are Joan Chittister, Henri Nouwen, God, Jimmy Carter, Christine Dallman, and M. J. Ryan – and, of course, myself. Wow! Quite a group of seven we are. Usually, everyone speaks up in the…

  Marian

  April 28, 2015

  Blogs, Book Recommendations, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  “Christ in Our Home”, aggravations, Albert Einstein, Attitudes of Gratitude, Bread for the Journey, Christine Dallman, Christmas Mountain, Edward Hays, Henri Nouwen, Jimmy Carter, Joan Chittister, M. J. Ryan, Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim, quiet, quietness, Revised Common Lectionary, roundtable, roundtable discussion, standing in line, The Monastic Way, The Personal Daily Prayer Book, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter

• The Worst Sin of All according to Floey

  My new dog Floey and I are still getting to know each other. Christmas Day will mark the one month anniversary of Floey’s adoption date. Mim and I and all of our 93-year-olds are so happy that she joined our family. Floey loves all of us, but it’s clear that I am her favorite. She…

  Marian

  December 23, 2014

  Christmas, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  case weather, cash crop, christmas, Christmas shopping, commercialization of Christmas, daily devotions, devotional book, Edward Hays, Floey, foggy days, generosity, generous, God’s love, Indian Reservation, kindness, lath, life challenges, moral code, Native American, North American Indian, raising tobacco, reflections, stinginess, stingy, stripping tobacco, tobacco, worst sin

• De-Adult Me, Please

  Remake me as an awe-fascinated primitive, de-adult me so as to wonder like a child … [from Edward Hays, A BOOK OF WONDERS, p. 336] The picture above is my great niece, Katie. I snapped the picture at our family Christmas celebration in 2001. Katie is in high school now. I hope she keeps her sense of awe and wonder forever.…

  Marian

  November 4, 2014

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Book of Wonders, childlike delight, de-adult, de-adulting, devotional book, Edward Hays, first snowfall, God’s love, God-given gifts, joy, Katie Korth, life challenges, life changes, listening for God, Megabyte, reflections, snow, snowfall, spirituality, talking with God, wonder

• The 3 Heroes in my Life

  The earliest hero in my life was Roy Rogers. I wanted to be just like him – ride a horse like Trigger, have a dog like Bullet, and wear a white cowboy hat on my head and two six-guns in a holster at my waist. I wanted to always stand up for what was right,…

  Marian

  October 21, 2014

  Goals, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  A Book of Wonders, best day of my childhood, Bullet, childhood, childhood hero, childhood heroes, cowboy hat, Dale Evans, Edward Hays, Elsie Korth, God’s love, God-given gifts, hero, heroes, life calling, life challenges, life changes, listening for God, mom, Nancy, Nancy Kornelsen, reflections, Roy Rogers, sister, spirituality, talking with God, Trigger, Wisconsin State Fair, Yiddish proverb

• Thank God I’m Sick! Really?

  For the past three weeks I’ve been coaxing my immune system to get busy and fix me.  I think it’s been ignoring its job. The day I came home from our mini-vacation at Christmas Mountain I felt like I might be getting a cold. The next day I had a high fever and was mad…

  Marian

  October 7, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  3 Rs, A Book of Wonders, All praise belongs to God, being sick, cough, cough syrup, coughing, Country Comforts Assisted Living, daily devotions, Edward Hays, God’s love, God-given gifts, hot spiced wine, illness as a blessing, illness as purification, illusion of being in control, illusions of being invulnerable, immune system, life challenges, listening for God, mystical broom, praise God in sickness, purification, Reflection, reflections, Relaxation, Rest, sick, sickness, spirituality, talking with God

• What Do I Really Do?

  Last week I heard from some voices in my past thanks to social media. A couple colleagues from the late 1970s-early 1980s when I worked for Northwest Industries in Chicago emailed me through LinkedIn, the professional networking site. Then I heard from a coworker at TDS in Madison where I worked in the mid-1990s, and…

  Marian

  September 16, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Adventures in Hospitality, career, career path, Come Lord Jesus, consulting practice, daily devotions, devotional book, Disaster Recovery, Edward Hays, Experience Timeline, friends, God’s love, God-given gifts, homeward path, job, jobs, kindness, life calling, Linked In, LinkedIn, listening for God, love your neighbor, Northwest Industries, occupation, pilgrimage, pilgrimhood, Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim, reflections, Sears Tower, self-employed author, social media, spirituality, talking with God, The Virus Handbook, Virus Handbook, vocation

• A Pat on the Back

  This morning I looked at my beautiful old dog Abbey and said, “Hey, Abbey. Come over here a minute. I want to give you a pat on the back – not just a few pats on the head, a real pat on the back.” “Okay, Mom. Just a minute while I coax my legs to…

  Marian

  September 9, 2014

  Assisted Living, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  93-year-olds, Abbey, Adventures in Hospitality, assisted living, Country Comforts, Country Comforts Assisted Living, daily devotions, Edward Hays, endless grandmas, endless supply of grandmas, God’s love, God-given gifts, grandmas, hospitality, kindness, life calling, life challenges, life changes, love, love your neighbor, old dog, reflections, spirituality, talking with God

• UFF DA Revisited

  A few weeks ago I blogged about taking “Mary” (one of the people we care for) to the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles to get an official State ID card. She may need the Wisconsin ID to vote, but more urgently, she needs a State ID to cash in a U.S. Government Savings Bond. As…

  Marian

  July 8, 2014

  Assisted Living, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  assisted living, birth certificate, bless you, blessings, DMV, Edward Hays, frustration, God bless you, God’s love, identification card, kindness, life challenges, love your neighbor, May God bless you, patience, reflections, spirituality, state ID, uff da, waiting in line, Wisconsin ID

• UFF DA

  Yesterday morning’s prayer in Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim by Edward Hays included these lines: Grant me the grace to look with respect upon all I will meet this day and upon every event I encounter. Mindful that I am a pilgrim, may I treat each and every one with reverence and love, as a…

  Marian

  May 20, 2014

  Assisted Living, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• The Virtue of Inconsistency

  My favorite quotation of all time was made by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I loved it the first time I read it, back when I was a literature major in college: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I always thought “hobgoblin” was a fun-to-say word – almost onomatopoeic – the sound it makes…

  Marian

  April 29, 2014

  Reflections

  Abraham Lincoln, Bernard Berenson, consistency, consistency quotes, contradict myself, Edward Hays, Emerson, favorite quotation, foolish consistency, hairy little man, hobgoblin, ignorance, ignorant, inconsistency, life challenges, life changes, little minds, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflections, wiser