Posted May 18, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Red Flowers and Strength

She was visiting her friend in the hospital as the beautiful red vase of cut flowers from the church secretary arrived. Moments later the friend was to be taken for an emergency surgery and then to ICU, where no flowers could follow. As hospital transport stood waiting to take her friend, the friend was sending […]

Posted April 3, 2024 in Sacred Stories

The Coupon Queen

It was the first Easter after his mother had passed. He was wondering how he was going to make it through Easter without her. On the week leading up to that first Easter without his mother, he was in the grocery store on a very long check out line. Someone tapped him on the shoulder. […]

Posted March 26, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Red-Shouldered Hawk - A Close Encounter

On Sunday, she received this wonderful blessing from a spiritual teacher who goes by the name Mother.

I am with you and I will climb on the back of your bike and enjoy the outings with you. If you go past something that catches your eye, just tap me on the shoulder and say […]

Posted March 26, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Help Buying a New Van

She and her husband had the sense they were to explore trading in their car for a new one. Their sense about this grew stronger the more they laughed about how silly it was to think about a new car since theirs was only a year old. And, further, they had just had a hitch […]

Posted March 8, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Hallelujah!

Her friend, still hospitalized with complications following back surgery two weeks ago, was very much on her mind as she was getting out of her car to run into Dollar Tree. The song Hallelujah was being played in the parking lot. She had just texted the K.D. Lang version to her friend a couple of […]

Posted March 4, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Marquette

Her sister and brother-in-love had been planning a move from their hometown to the upper peninsula of Michigan, where their youngest grandchildren were. She wanted her sister to be where she needed to be, but to be honest, in her heart a move to Marquette for them felt like loss. Significant relief came when they […]

Posted February 28, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Missing Ear Bud

Finishing her meditation, she popped her wireless ear buds into the charger case, snapped the lid closed, and set it on the bedside table until she got up and plugged it into her computer. Late that evening as she was readying for bed, she put the charger case back on the bedside table so it […]

Posted February 14, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Two Male Cardinals

She and her husband did a ridge hike close to Tucson, Arizona while they were wintering in the Western United States from their home in Western Canada. Her husband doesn’t do heights very well, and he leaned over to one side for many hours as they tackled their big hike.

Eventually, they got to […]

Posted February 14, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Flowers from Friends

After several years of leaving her own home and traveling to a nearby state to provide support — and then care — for her centenarian father, he had recently passed and now now she was executor of his estate.

She writes: “I had just opened the day’s mail which brought a flood of medical […]

Posted February 7, 2024 in Sacred Stories

God's Message in My Boot!

(Reposted from Facebook with permission from Shana.)

During my prayer time this morning, I prayed about a situation I was wrestling to get my mind around. The situation wasn’t news to God. I am pretty sure God was probably like, “Yes, Shana, I get it; we’ve talked about this before.”

Then, as I […]