Day 17: Walking for Peace
Note: The image above and the text below are both copyright Walk for Peace. I share their statement—and believe this is acceptable—simply to spread their message. If you are not already doing so, I hope you will follow the monks on their remarkable journey. You can do...
Day 6: Darkness, and Light, and Advent
IT IS A PRACTICE that brings depth to the season and calm to my soul; a daily watching for the promise that when darkness surrounds, light is to come. This is Advent, to me. It's what we all want, is it not? What we need? To hang on? When life is hard, when the world...
Day 5: The Dancing Trees
I LOVE A Christmas craft, particularly if it's something I can do while watching The Voice or Survivor or (my current fave) The Diplomat. I've had fun these last couple of weeks popping out a few of what I'm calling Dancing Trees. They're so cute as ornaments or...
Day 4: Thanksgiving, and tradition
The post below first appeared on The Daily Grace on Thanksgiving Eve 2011. So much has changed in the years since I wrote it. All of the grandparents have passed on. Eliza—the cute Party Girl in blue, above, is now 33, married, and has a sweet daughter of her...
Day 3: The joy of surprise.
IT TOOK ME forever to see. Tim swore it was there, in a photograph taken by our friend, Paul, when he and Stacy came to visit at the end of October. His was a shot of one of the two Autumn wreathes that hang on our front doors, October to Thanksgiving. I looked at the...
Day 2: Start small.
IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE reality that for the better part of the last two years, I've spent a large portion of most every day sitting on my bum, working at my computer. For good reason, nearly all of it, as with the publishing of my book there has been round after round of...
Day 1: Trust me on this.
DO YOU LOVE your holiday tunes the way I love my holiday tunes? Isn't Christmas music just THE BEST??? If the answer is yes (and I know the answer is yes), you're gonna wanna listen to this playlist starting now. I know, I know. It's called Cozy Christmas Jazz and...
Hi. I’m Cathy.
This is a blog about writing, creative living, and grace in the everyday. It’s my hope this little spot on the internet will be for you a place of quiet and reflection, a source for inspiration, and a reminder there’s beauty all around—we simply need to keep our hearts open to see it. Thank you for being here with me.