Blending self-reliance with Devine intervention is one way to go.

Sitting on a cushion on the floor in our closet surrounded by pillows and blankets, with a trembling and inconsolable Puggle on my lap as folks in the surrounding neighborhoods were setting off fireworks to usher in a new year.

Overcome with sorrow, she wondered how a young man, not yet seeing his 32nd birthday, had accomplished so much? And what could he have achieved with more time?

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I among them" (Matthew 18:20)

Is thinking the same as praying?

Leave Behind the Old Ways

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

The magic of canine and equine energy is there if we chose to feel it.

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In God, there is peace within the worst turmoil. Through God, you can rise above the fears that plague you, knowing in the end it will be okay. Because in the end there is God. And where there is God, there is peace. And where there is God, there is laughter. God is love and joy. In the end, there is God.

“My dog has the right to enjoy her walk without the fear of being charged at by your dog, who’s right you think it is to say hello.”