Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Cousins As an only child my cousins were of great importance to me. Older cousins taught me a lot about getting along with others. Little eyes are constantly watching and absorbing helpful principals when exampled around them. Younger cousins gave me lots of opportunities to learn how to entertain

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Brainy Thoughts We consider our nutrition as we plan our menus. We exercise when we want to keep our muscles in shape. We try to go to bed early or take a nap when we feel tired. Do we ever consider how we are feeding our brain with our

Mary’s Monday Musing to Quilt Encouragement Our Thought Life “Thanks, Dad, for the deep bargain on these avocados.” I looked across the grocery store tomato display to see who was speaking. A lady, wearing her hair in a stylish top knot, bent over to pick up a bag of avocados, but no one else stood

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement A Child’s Perspective The perspective of a three-year-old often delights us. Our precious three-year-old great grandchild recently visited us in our retirement community. She relished every moment of her time downstairs in the community indoor pool. Now she asks to return to “Mammy’s big house and swim in Mammy’s

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Online Help There is a vast group of helpful people out there who earn their living patiently shepherding people like me through the mysteries of online shopping. Here’s to the extreme patience of these beleaguered souls who withhold a groan when they are so unfortunate to pick up their

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Healing A simple cut seems like a little thing, but it can hurt and continue to aggravate long past when it seems such a small thing should bother us. Whenever something goes amiss in the way our body functions, we have a choice. A cut, a bruise, or things

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Competence Whenever we need medical help to recover from some health difficulty, we have an opportunity to appreciate the doctors and nurses who perform their skills with such competence as they work to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it. We can consider the years a

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Snow Snow wears two faces. The sight and sound of children making snowmen, throwing snowballs, delightful laughter while lying on their backs and making snow angels. Hot chocolate, fireplaces, and marshmallow roasting. Family games while warm inside. The other face. The enormous road blockage of hundreds of car unable

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Peace Beyond Understanding As we approach the end of another turbulent year, we can see a lot in this world to distress us. The world offers us plenty to complain about, worry about, distrust, and agonize over. Weather conditions destroy. Disease harms. Accidents happen. People disappoint us, hurt us,

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement The Christmas Miracle I wonder how many recognized the miracle of Jesus that very first Christmas. From the Bible, we know that the shepherds on a nearby hillside did. They noted an unusual star and followed it to find and worship the Christ child in a manger. Some wise