Posted in Education, Fear, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, MONEY, cancer, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, communication, compassion, courage, depression, donate, emotions, environment, family, fathers, finances, grandchildren, grandparents, health, help, hospital, hospitals, inspiration, kids, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mother, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, pharmacist, physician, relationships, responsibility, sadness, spiritual, support, teens, trauma, unhappiness on Jun 29th, 2010
Childhood cancer patients need comforting & this non-profit organization Friends Like Us are fundraising to help donate chemo bears to children affected by cancer.
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Posted in Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, Opportunities, Time, attitude, charitable organizations, chemo, children, comfort, compassion, donate, elderly, emergency, emotions, encouragement, environment, family, finances, health, help, holidays, home, hospital, hospitals, hunger, inspiration, joy, kids, leadership, learning, legacy, library, life, love, meals, medical, mental and physical health, mentoring, ministry, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, service, stress, support, surgery, talent, talents, volunteering on Jun 10th, 2010
The Renucci Hospitality House in Grand Rapids Michigan provides temporary housing to families who have loved ones in the Spectrum Hospital. Volunteers are needed.
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Posted in Amazing, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, awareness, charitable organizations, charity, children, compassion, crime, death, denial, disaster, donate, elderly, emergency, emotions, excitement, family, food, giving, grief, help, horror, hospital, human trafficking, hunger, kids, leadership, learning, life, loss, meals, medical, miracles, missing and exploited children on Jan 28th, 2010
Inside of all of the news reports concerning Haiti and it’s suffering after the earthquake come stories of sharing, compassion and a reminder of stone soup.
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Education, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, MONEY, Opportunities, Teen Pregnancy, birth, charitable organizations, charity, children, comfort, commitment, communication, compassion, culture, economy, elderly, emotions, family, finances, future, giving, goals, grandchildren, health, help, home, hopes, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, medical, mental and physical health, observations, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, personal development, poverty, power, responsibility, safety, school, schools, service, special needs, success, support, talent, teens, values, well-being on May 4th, 2009
The world is a big wonderful place full of interesting people, places to go and exciting things to do. However, for those who are stuck in the cycle of poverty and need…the world is often a place that seems full of promise; only to others, who are blessed with the resources to go, do [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Amazing, Education, Faith, Fear, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, cancer, charity, chemo, children, commitment, communication, culture, death, emotions, encouragement, entertainment, family, future, giving, grief, health, help, history, life, mental and physical health, news on Sep 5th, 2008
Tonight there is going to be a historic program on television called Stand Up 2 Cancer on the major television networks, ABC<NBC<CBS. They are working together in an unprecedented event to raise awareness and funds to fight the fight against cancer. It is an amazing effort, which was planned to be the beginning of the end, [...]
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Posted in Faith, Fear, Heart, Heart to heart, Impact, MONEY, anger, communication, death, depression, divorce, elderly, emotions, family, finances, friendship, grief, health, hopes, life, loneliness, loss, marriage, media, mental and physical health, news, pain and misery, parenting, relationships, respect, sadness, safety, school, self doubt, sick and tired, stress, suicidal, suicide, support, teens on Aug 23rd, 2008
Suicide is not a pleasant subject. It is a word that makes most people cringe. People who have lost a loved one to suicide cringe too; they have more of a reason to be disturbed by the word. Most of us don’t stop to think about suicide death on a daily basis…but maybe we should. For [...]
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Posted in Celebration, Family Time, Heart, Heart to heart, Holiday Blues, Honor, Mother's Day, Remembering, baby, children, death, emotions, family, foster parenting, grandchildren, grief, holidays, husband, kids, life, loneliness, loss, love, mental and physical health, mom, mother, music, parenting, religion, sadness, safety on May 10th, 2008
Today I went to a mother/daughter celebration sponsored by a church ladies group. I celebrated motherhood with two of my daughters and with my granddaughter as well as my mother and one of my sisters. It was great. We had a good time, we took pictures, we played games had good music and food…but, [...]
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