Posted September 6, 2025 in Sacred Stories

Divine Order

For three years she had been struggling with the issue in of bleeding in her colon. The things that she had gone through — including transfusions to ease the horrific anemia exhaustion, hospitalization and IV antibiotics to fight infection, and weeks of daily sessions in that hyperbaric oxygen chamber (traumatic, with her claustrophobia) but nothing […]

Posted August 22, 2025 in Sacred Stories

Mahogany Table

My friends wanted a larger dining table. But it had to be one that could also be small enough for the four of us to play cards or dominoes, as we often do.

I had put an item on Marketplace but the smaller items that had not sold went home with my daughter for […]

Posted July 22, 2025 in Sacred Stories

August Wedding

It was 1976. Their daughter was six years old. Cancer!

It was only June but their daughter was sooooo excited about an upcoming family wedding. Her dress had already been chosen. The wedding was not until August.

As the doctors listed off the side effects of the chemotherapy her mother began to pray, “Lord, […]

Posted July 17, 2025 in Sacred Stories

Hilma of Klint

“She was well-educated, she had a mind of her own, and she painted like nobody else.” ~ opening words from the trailer of the Zeitgeist Films “Beyond the Visible: Hilma of Klint.” The jigsaw puzzle she had borrowed from the public library featured an image done by the artist Hilma of Klint, born in Sweden […]

Posted July 4, 2025 in Sacred Stories

Positivity

She received the following list of “Affirmations & Denials” from The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn in a text message from a friend.

Affirmations & Denials

(For Prosperity) God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly, under grace, in perfect […]

Posted July 4, 2025 in Sacred Stories

The Game of Life

He took The Game of Life & How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn with him to the beach. They were not going to spend the whole day as they were planning to visit a friend. Arriving on the friend’s porch, he mentioned the book adding that it was a small book and perfect […]

Posted June 16, 2025 in Sacred Stories

Another Quarter!

She had reached out to a friend inviting her for a bike ride but the friend was not available, and she was feeling a bit lonely as she headed out alone.

Last year this time her close friend was navigating end-of-life. After her friend had passed, she had come in spirit saying she would send […]

Posted June 12, 2025 in Sacred Stories

I'm Here for You

Her daughter had a biopsy on her leg and it came back squamous cell carcinoma. She was to have an excision that would be done by a plastic surgeon to minimize scarring. She sent a message to a prayer list, saying, “Our daughter would use words asking for prayers for those doing her procedure; requesting […]

Posted May 13, 2025 in Sacred Stories

A Cute Young Boy

Her grandmother was being cared for in a facility. Meanwhile, she and her husband and two daughters had been renting her grandmother’s home. Although her grandmother’s will gave her first option to purchase the home, when her grandmother passed and the house came up for sale the situation was complicated because of her divorce.

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Posted May 13, 2025 in Sacred Stories

The Invisible String

A friend had been out-of-town for the birthday celebration of a six-year-old granddaughter and was just heading home when this message popped in: “We just left. She was crying so hard she couldn’t get on the bus. Her mom is consoling her and then driving her to school when she settles down.”

I responded […]