by Sheila Graham Smith | Jul 9, 2025 | Gardening Tips, Meditation
I enjoy browsing estate and garage sales. What do I look for? Yup, “things” for the garden or quilting. I hit the jackpot when one of the estate sale homes had a designated sewing room filled with my kind of goodies: an armoir stacked to the max with...
by Sheila Graham Smith | May 20, 2025 | Meditation
While it’s still somewhat cool in the early dawn hours, I like to sip my jasmine green tea on the back porch and ever so slowly greet the new day. The birds are the first to wake up. I hear them way before I see them! My niece introduced me to an app which...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Apr 29, 2025 | Meditation
April has come and gone with its multitude of celebrations, whether Easter or family birthdays all clustered together. Both of my boys, now 46 and 47, were born in April in a small TX county hospital. What I remember about coming home to the parsonage in Morgan, TX...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Apr 4, 2025 | Meditation
One of my coping skills for dealing with chronic pain is visualizing specific others who are walking through trauma that is way beyond my imagination. If I see a news story about refugees fleeing their country with nothing but the clothes on their backs I say,...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Mar 1, 2025 | Meditation
One of our favorite shows to watch is Finding Your Roots on PBS. Recently, a phrase that one of the participants repeated often was,”be the answer to your ancestor’s prayers.” I scrambled for a scrap of paper to jot it down before I forgot it, which...
