Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Take time to seek out a better way, while exploring less traveled side roads along the path

Finding Direction:  The Wind Vane Chronicles

Entries Tagged as 'Spirituality'

My Life in “Full Bloom”

April 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Historical, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

I bought the painting, “Full Bloom,” of the old wood framed house 10 years ago because it reminded me so much of the house I grew up in out on the farm east of a typical west Texas town.  Yet, when my mom came to visit, she didn’t see any resemblance at all, and she [...]

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Being “Heaven’s Embassies” In Our Homes

April 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · A Home Complete, Inspirational, Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

First, I must apologize to you all because for some reason, I have not been getting your comments here in my email, so had no idea there were any at all on my last post and some needing approval on my last two posts.  And, one was from Tom, whom I have now “approved,” so [...]

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Growing Up; Maturing; Becoming Wise

September 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise” A Facebook friend posted this quote this morning and I thought it was very good.  I do not know the author, so cannot attribute [...]

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Guest Post: A Birthday Timeline

September 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Dee's Family, Friends, Inspirational, Our Kids, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

I am SO lucky!  I have a beautiful, talented, loving daughter-in-law named Lynn (Mark’s wife), who not only is a sweetheart in the family – hers, ours and their own – but also a gifted writer.  She blogs and does lots of videos of the girls at My Charmed Life, that I really enjoy, being [...]

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My Way is Unclear Today, But Stay With Me, Anyway . . .

June 14th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

My heart is heavily burdened right now with family difficulties on many fronts, some from the distant past that have accumulated and come to a head in recent months.  Others have arisen over the past several months and continue to become more serious and onerous each day, it seems. I am spending my time, whether [...]

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God’s Beautiful LITTLE Things in Life

May 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises.  Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]

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The Girl in the Woods

May 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Friends, Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Stories, Uncategorized

She lived out in the deep Piney Woods of East Texas, a good ways out from Nacogdoches. She was 19 years old and married to a small thin man in his late 30s or early 40s who looked to be twice his age and was crippled up in his left arm from a working accident [...]

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