Tag: calm

  • Advent 12 – Share!

    Advent 12 – Share!

    Here we are on Day 12 of the Advent Adventure. For most everyone I know, it’s a busy time of the year that can very easily cross over into Stress Central if you don’t take care on that front. Seriously, this is the time of the year when you just HAVE to replenish your own…

  • Advent 11 – Use Your Own Yardstick!

    Advent 11 – Use Your Own Yardstick!

    Woof! Here it is at the end of the semester and – to use a Southernism I heard recently – I’m busier than a moth in a mitten! Which means that I didn’t do as well today as I would have liked – in fact, I need to double up on my “Reverse Advent Calendar”…

  • Advent 10 – Stealth Kindness

    Advent 10 – Stealth Kindness

    This was an especially nice idea – I’m thinking of it as “stealth kindness.” I think that sometimes we get a little wrapped up in wanting to be “caught” being nice – you see it in some charity pictures (mission trips, soup kitchens, and so on) where people pose with the folks they’re helping out.…