Pita, Prayers, and Perennials
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My hope is for all to receive sanctuary and encouragement, including hospitality venues and ideas, conversational meditations, and organic gardening tips. Topics will range from the deeply personal to the light and entertaining, but all with the purpose of uplifting you while encouraging you to think deeply.
“She” Ain’t Heavy
Have you heard of the song, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” by the Hollies? The story behind this song stems from the early 1900’s when Father Flanagan, the founder of Boy’s Town, was glancing through a magazine showing a picture of an older boy carrying a younger boy on his back. The caption read, “He ain’t heavy mister. . . he’s my brother.”
Winter Cleaning, not Spring Cleaning!
After taking down Christmas and before pulling back your “normal” items from where you hid them in your excitement to decorate for the holidays the day after Thanksgiving, give all your surfaces a good cleaning. There’s no need to go out and buy fancy cleaners to do the job, just follow my easy directions and concoct your own product!
New Year’s Watch-night
These are my mother’s words.
“I think I mentioned before the importance of New Year’s Eve as one of the major holidays. The first year in Beirut, some people were casually gathered in our home and they stayed and stayed.”