• Gratitude

    A Gratitude Box

    Here’s a great idea for showing appreciation: A gratitude box is a wonderful gift to make for someone. Sandra Magsamen says all you have to do is write things you appreciate about someone on slips of paper. You can write things like, “I am grateful for your…smile, the sound of…

  • Faith and Spirituality

    They Have Taken Away My Lord

    I hope that my Easter reflection will be received in the spirit with which it has been written. Recent events in the Catholic Church, or rather the recent exposure of past events, and lack of positive action on the part of the Church, more specifically the priests and religious, leave…

  • Life and Inspiration

    One Sock

    Andrew Matthews tells this touching and inspiring story: On a bicycle ride around the world, my friend Aden stopped awhile in a West African village to help build a bakery. Aden said: It took us several months to build the bakery. We made the bricks from crushed anthills. Every day…