To hear the music in today’s post from singer/songwriter Mark Pearson please go to the Just A Thought website. Some twenty years ago Charles Hahn, who passed away in 2020, shared a wonderful Christmas story with the family. It was Christmas 1935. Charles was five years old. His family lived in Oklahoma City and like so many families during the Depression, they struggled to make … Continue reading The Best Christmas Gift Ever! »

The music from this post is only experienced from the Just A Thought website.  PLEASE CLICK HERE  ”The grief that does not speak / Knits up the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” ~ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare The grief of which Shakespeare writes is an experience many of us share. A grief so deep it can hardly be whispered — “the grief that does … Continue reading This Too Shall Pass »

The music from this post is only experienced from the Just A Thought website.  PLEASE CLICK HERE “Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” ~  Adam Lindsay Gordon If I might be allowed this observation — It appears there is a missing virtue in the souls of many of our elected leaders, a virtue once … Continue reading Cub Scout Courage »

  The upcoming election is perhaps the most important in the history of the United States as we each cast a vote as to what kind of country we choose to be. We are giving our full-throated support to Vice President Harris and Tim Walz and the democratic values for which they stand. If you haven’t already, please vote on the earliest day possible in … Continue reading To My American Readers – Vote »

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.” ~ Robert Brault I remember one night in Chicago when the weather abruptly changed and a huge storm came from the north and collided with a system coming in from the south. The thunderstorms that resulted were of such force that it seemed as though … Continue reading Mommy Power »