The Houston cottage understands and promotes individual worth, especially the worth of girls and women. This past year the cottage, led by Nikki Brown, has served in very sweet and personal ways. Families transitioning out of homelessness have many challenges. Working with a local non-profit organization, the Houston cottage members prepared and delivered meals for…
One passage of Scripture that I love is found in Romans Chapter 8, verse 28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” All things. All things? All things! The good things obviously come from God. It is so easy to recognize that and be thankful for those…
During the sun’s annual trip around our fair and lovely planet, we are blessed with the beauty of our seasons. This season we are presently in is one that also devotes time and energy in celebrating victories of our year-end goals, the harvest of our efforts and collaborative work and most assuredly we celebrate abundance. We rejoice…
One of the ways that I am always so happy to see the positive culture of abundance so clearly demonstrated is when there are invitations to donate for people in need: when major storms hit an area, when the pandemic left people in great need, and most recently as the Utah cottages and friends from…
When I consider the tenet this month, “We foster a unique and positive culture of abundance”, I can’t help but think of what living an abundant life, abundance with God, and living life abundant with those I love is like. Abundance is to have a fullness. But, what is having a full or fulfilled life?…
As I sat watching the sun set over the Grand Canyon several weeks ago, I was in complete awe of the abundance of beauty before me. No other place is quite like the Grand Canyon, but there is beauty to be found everywhere. Even in the stark, arid landscape where I grew up, the sunsets…
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My youngest son is 17, and right now, in this moment as I write, he is practicing the piano, pounding too loudly at the keys trying to perfect a song for the Christmas recital that may or may not happen, all things being what they are right now with social distancing and limiting interactions and…
Simple Abundance by Lisa Bjornberg What do you think of when you hear the word abundance? Does it bring to mind the symbolic cornucopia of overflowing fruits and vegetables? Do you think of the great good you could do if you had an overabundance of resources? Does your mind wander to the desire for a…
When everyone around you is telling you that your children will be better off with someone else, when your community and your culture and your government encourage and even incentivize mothers to leave their children as early as possible, when the picture of what a family and what mothering is has become something up for…