Tag: grace

  • Confident Boundaries with Children

    Picture a white picket fence around a beautiful home, this is the analogy Henry Cloud gives In his books about Boundaries to create an image of our responsibilities in life. We each have a home. We may share our home, but within our common space there are times and places of privacy. Our lives are not easily separated from…

  • What Makes America Beautiful?

    Katherine Lee Bates said it well: America the beautiful. Our spacious skies, fields and mountains certainly are majestic, not to mention the music-hearted seas that grace our beautiful shores-but really, every nation has some kind of beauty to be appreciated. Perhaps America’s greatest beauty is the very thing we celebrate this weekend: our independence. When…

  • Becoming Confident About Convictions

    What a joy it was to help Faith Assembly of God with their celebration of Palm Sunday! I learned so much while painting the adorable faces of children from all over Hyannis. Some of their requests cracked me up. These kids were either adamant about having me create what they struggled to communicate, or they…

  • Grace covered Lives

    I love a beautiful landscape. Cape Cod beaches. Manicured lawns. Beautiful flower gardens. Wintery days like today. As I sit home without a reason or desire to enter the fridged storm I can’t help but enjoy my backyard more than usual. After breaking my back 14 years ago I really can’t do the bending that…