by Suzanne | Feb 6, 2019 | Abundance Answers, Faith, wisdom
The mind feasts on what it focuses on. Our minds are like computers, filled with old files that can’t seem to get purged…or stay purged. Memories bubble up, unbidden, from past mistakes and shortcomings, disappointments and failures. It’s far too easy to soak in those...
by Suzanne | Jan 9, 2019 | Scarcity Says, wisdom
Scarcity and Abundance are a study in contrasts. There’s a reason for that—it illustrates the diametrically opposing pull on our hearts, our minds, even our bodies. Scarcity is at the heart of our sin nature. It’s so much a part of us that we don’t even...
by Suzanne | Jan 3, 2019 | Coffee Break, wisdom
So how’s the new year going? Yesterday, my husband asked me if I had made any New Year’s resolutions for 2019 and I squirmed. I had just stumbled on an index card of last year’s resolutions and realized I’d only kept up with two. Just two! But those two were big...
by Suzanne | Jan 2, 2019 | Abundance Answers, wisdom
A year or so ago, my small group from church studied C.S. Lewis’ satirical masterpiece Screwtape Letters. Set eerily in an office in Hell, one of Satan’s senior tempters, Screwtape, schemes meticulously to capture the souls of unsuspecting humans on earth. A...
by Suzanne | Sep 5, 2018 | Faith, Travel, Uncategorized, wisdom
Five years ago, my youngest daughter spent a year teaching in southern China. My husband Steve and I went to visit her, and we all took a side trip to Vietnam. While there, we went on a tour through “Hanoi Hilton”–the prison where John McCain...
by Suzanne | Aug 8, 2018 | Amish, Amish Proverbs, Amish Wisdom, Penn Dutch, wisdom
Proverbs have played a surprisingly prominent role in the speech of the Pennsylvania Germans. Often colorfully phrased, at times even musical in pronunciation, proverbs are teaching tools for illiterate populations that relied on oral tradition. The cleverness of a...