by Sheila Graham Smith | Jan 26, 2026 | Meditation
In the hush of any morning, while the humans in my household are still dreaming, my fur babies and I settle into the corner chair of the study and greet the morning with a cup of jasmine green tea. Today, it just so happens that the garden is resting under a blanket...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Jan 15, 2026 | Meditation
In Psalms 25, the psalmist is eagerly giving God his heart, the source of his shame. He knows without a doubt that the only way he can live a hopeful life is to be taught new ways of seeing good in himself. He relinquishes his heart into the tender arms of God’s...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Dec 30, 2025 | Gardening Tips, Meditation
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks around these unseasonably warm holidays pruning, reshaping, and chopping to the ground perennials in my garden. I’ve shredded fallen dead leaves, chopped up dry twigs, and cut out dead branches. There’s been so...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Nov 5, 2025 | Gardening Tips, Meditation
Why the earthworm picture? You’ll see! Three “happenings” converged last weekend: dividing and transplanting lilies, kinda watching the world series, and listening/watching utube reels through my earbuds while the baseball game was on. How did they...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Oct 22, 2025 | Meditation
A family funeral is a funny thing. . . There’s the extreme, soul-wrenching sorrow of losing a beloved member juxtaposed with the celebratory stories joyfully shared by close friends and family. We back and forth cried and laughed, wiping away sad and happy tears...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Sep 16, 2025 | Meditation
We met at the Beirut port in 1961, but we got to know each other in the sand box at the Beirut Baptist School (BBS). Tim’s family temporarily lived one floor up from my family in the missionary residence on the BBS campus while his parents studied Arabic before going...
