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Welcome Spring?
Two days ago, I walked in the sun, breathed in the crisp late-winter air, viewed hearty buds on trees, just waiting to burst open and announce: SPRING IS HERE! And today, it snows and snows and snows some more. Those buds must be so confused.
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The Message
“I don’t know what is best for others because I don’t know the lessons their Higher Power is offering them.” – Courage to Change, pg. 79 How often do I sit back and judge how someone else is living his or her life? More often than I would like to admit! The quote above stopped…
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THANK YOU, READERS!
It was one year ago that I started my blog, Dewdrops Plus. During the past year, I have posted 245 pieces of writing – and you have been there to read them. THANK YOU! I don’t know about other writers, but for me, consistency in my writing happens when I know someone is out there…
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So Much Love
How is it possible that You love me how You do? So much every day every way my heart flows over with joy… As I walk about with so little virtue so excess of fault You still love and love and love and my heart flows over with joy… Even in my unworthiness I know…
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I pray today…
I pray today for the courage to say what needs to be said especially when what needs to be said might not be popular. And, I also pray for the ability to hold my tongue especially when my ego is hurting. I pray today for the faith to keep on keeping on especially when the…
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Good Grief!
Rarely do I re-read what I’ve written once it is posted… …today I did and caught a typo… GOOD GRIEF! Sorry about that, friends! Corrected poem is below… The Questions They tell me you were fully human just like me… …so I wonder… As you made your way to Jerusalem, did you know? Were you…
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Change
“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.” – W.H. Auden Why is it so difficult for us to change? What is it within our human make-up that insists change is not necessary whenever the first sign…
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Let’s Overwhelm the World!
“Do a little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu Lately, with news of school shootings, arguments rising on gun control and illegal immigration, and the plethora of oppression that continues to be present around the globe, I have felt somewhat helpless. What…
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Reflecting…
Two years ago today I had my double mastectomy surgery. I remember that morning very clearly. After about six weeks of sitting with the diagnosis – stage 0 breast cancer – I was more than ready to go! I wanted that cancer out of me as soon as possible. I had spent the last six…
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Amelia
Who knows your name today, Amelia? A brave, magnanimous soul leading the peaceful charge, crossing the invisible line, struck cowardly from behind beaten only then to oblivion. Their fear blinded the love of God in their hearts, your courage propelled your feet to keep on moving. In peace, in love, in service to a lineage…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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