by skimhenson | Oct 4, 2019 | depression, love and grace, suicide, writing words to live by
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.” Jana Stanfield I took off the summer from posting on my blog even though I had posts ready to publish. I kept thinking, … Seriously, God, “all the good I can do” is to...
by skimhenson | May 31, 2018 | love and grace, relationships
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” Leo Christopher In the past, I chose friends using the strangest set of guidelines: I let the other person decide if we were going to be friends no matter the circumstances, even the...
by skimhenson | Oct 14, 2016 | emotions, love and grace, relationships
“We all have inside of us a Mother Teresa and a Hitler.” Unknown Almost daily I wonder if our country, my family and friendships, and I are going to make it until Election Day. These final four weeks are bringing out the worst in a lot of us. It’s telling when I’m...
by skimhenson | Jan 2, 2016 | love and grace, relationships, writing words to live by
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” Lucille Ball Every year since 2012, instead of resolutions I don’t keep, I’ve chosen a word for the year to help reach goals that I may or...
by skimhenson | Feb 25, 2015 | love and grace, relationships
It’s a bit unromantic, I guess, to write about our messy marriage on the same day we eloped 37 years ago, but messy is the only story we’ve got. We’ve been messy from the beginning. John and I married in Mr. Coyle’s living room the day after the justice of the peace...
by skimhenson | Feb 19, 2014 | attitude, love and grace, self-respect
When the deal fell through, I fell also. On my face. Literally. Which is why in my last blog post I talked about the mom who told her young son, “Fix your face.” Her words reminded me that I couldn’t fix mine, and neither could anyone else except God, and, so far, he...