In my role as a primary care Family Nurse Practitioner I often found myself reviewing lab results with patients that oft revealed a need for change. Their cholesterol was high, they were prediabetic, uncontrolled diabetic or they had high blood pressure. I would present the current situation. I would discuss the risk factors and the… Continue reading Great Expectations, Poor Results
Grey Skies
Grey skies are welcomed just as well as blue Turmoil and strife shunned the sun So she won’t be making an appearance today Not because she cannot or is too weak to endure Slanderous slings antagonistic arrows or entitled expectations But because she need not Even when she takes center stage There are some ,… Continue reading Grey Skies
Amazing Grace
Too often I find I miss the mark, disappoint the expectation of others and especially my own. I have spent many years beating myself up with “you should know better” or “what’s wrong with you?” “Here I go again” “How many times are you going to make the same mistake? Circle the same mountain?” These… Continue reading Amazing Grace
Mountains to Scale
Wanted to climb that mountain It’s rugged terrain proved a worthy opponent Exhilaration at the summit! I can just imagine it. Wading through pools of duties and emotions unsorted I must save that mountain for another day. Summits and steep climbs summon, sure to supply spectacular sport Right now reality reminds Each mountaintop endures… Shadowy… Continue reading Mountains to Scale
Salve for the Soul
Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Sometimes the feeling and thinking are all too much. ESPECIALLY if you are an OVERTHINKER like me.Sometimes what we need to do is just sit quietly listening to the tunes that open the portal to all those emotions you feel… Continue reading Salve for the Soul
Sustained thru Fire and Rain
Not so long ago this land was dry,parched thirsty for mercy. Fires burned. Trees fell. The crop died. Yet we remained. We cried out to you. We stood in a circle and prayed for you to heal our land. We knew then you are faithful. Some mocked us and called upon false gods. We your… Continue reading Sustained thru Fire and Rain
Let the Darkness Fear
It comes in the night to the lonely soul; it comes in the day to the weary body; it comes in the evening to the grieving heart; it comes and for some seems never to part. It wears down the mind as it tears down the soul; Whispering lies and watering roots fed by wrong… Continue reading Let the Darkness Fear
Deep Calls to Deep
A fresh page longing to be filled Impulsivity wants to charge ahead Read. Pray. Meditate. Wait for God. Too quickly I want to fix, repair, explain, solve. Fussing and fretting in frustration. Wait! Patience. Be still ¡Espera! What would you have these lines say, my Lord? Longing for understanding Craving significance … validation… approval Are… Continue reading Deep Calls to Deep
Out with old… well not all of it
Happy New Year! As most of us are all too thrilled to put 2020 behind us as it proved a challenging year for most with a global pandemic and all, I too join in the hope of a better 2021. The reality that it won’t come overnight is manifested by my Dad’s hospitalization 2 days… Continue reading Out with old… well not all of it
Santa Clause (Saint Nicholas)
Lil Miss is the kid that has always had an extraordinary imagination and a believing spirit. If you messed up and the tooth fairy missed her run, she would always have a reason for it. There are amazing stories about requests from Santa for things typically unobtainable that somehow managed to make it under the… Continue reading Santa Clause (Saint Nicholas)
