gaylegcurtin

Author, retired insurance professional, volunteer, and member of Author's Guild Tennessee.

About Those Wise Men

Wise men come to see a child of greater wisdom and honor divine. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich In almost every manger I’ve ever viewed, I have seen baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, farm animals, and … wise men. How many wise men? Always three. Why do we think there were three–no more, no less? And what

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Beauty for Ashes

To all who mourn he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. Isaiah 61:3 All of us have had some sort of emotional pain, some much worse than others. Even those who have dodged gut-wrenching and life-changing losses have certainly observed a friend’s suffering.

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Gratitude For the Sake of All That’s Healthy

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner This will be an abbreviated post because you have a full to-do list ranging from preparing a Thanksgiving feast to consuming said feast to digesting it in a supine position.

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