The Resolute Woman

Category: thankfulness

  • The miracles that surround us

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    I wrote recently about the beauty that surrounds us and how we often take it for granted. Of course, I am not the first one to write about ordinary beauty. With a little effort, I found these words from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I…

  • Pay attention to the beautiful

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    The organist at my church recently retired after playing the most beautiful music. For 45 years at the same church. I have listened to her for many Sundays since I joined this church more than 25 years ago. Sometimes I listened attentively, and sometimes I listened not quite as attentively. Often I took her beautiful…

  • Brave and determined

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    Our Founding Fathers were brave, determined, frightened men making it up as they went along, says Joseph J. Ellis, author of Revolutionary Summer. I heard Ellis speak recently at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas. “None of these men was perfect,” Ellis told the audience. But, there was a great crisis, and they responded to…

  • The world offers itself

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    On the wall, above the stairs, in between the dinosaur exhibit and the bird exhibit, in Dallas’ wonderful new Perot Museum of Nature and Science, I discovered this quote. “The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting.” –Mary Oliver –Joy

  • “Continuous small treats”

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    On Thanksgiving Day, we need to be thankful for all of our blessings. Big blessings like family and friends and plenty of food to eat. We need to remember little blessings, too. Small blessings like waking up with a hug from your husband, walking your dog before the busy part of the day begins and…

  • Aunt Ola’s doing okay at 105

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    When we heard that my husband’s Aunt Ola had been ill with pneumonia, we were concerned. When we visited her in August, Ola was still happy in her independent-living apartment, still up for two hours of conversation, still ready to walk us all the way to the door of her senior-citizen complex. However, since Ola…

  • Wisdom from a wedding

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    I attended a splendid wedding recently with a bride and groom who were obviously very much in love, magnificent music and a mother-of-the-bride, my friend Susie, who looked beautiful in a long blue dress. The wedding included a reading from a prayer written by Robert Louis Stevenson. These are the parts of the prayer that…