Month: October 2010

With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

Believe….

Seventeen years ago, a woman named Diane, sat in the pew at the church.  She was sitting alone, and she was crying softly.  An older woman turned around and saw her tears…the older woman said to her “Why are you crying dear?”  Diane turned to her and said, I am praying to become a mother […]

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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

“Walk slowly”

I went to a tranquility yoga class tonight for the first time.  I had no expectations other than to clear my mind of all things, which is sometimes not an easy task.  The instructor started off the class with a poem by Danna Faulds, who is a well known yoga instructor and author.  It was […]

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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

“What would YOU like to do?”

I had a great dinner with my dear cousin yesterday.  I found myself in deep discussion with her over how Andrew and I came to know we would adopt.  On the night Andrew and I sat down with the excel spreadsheet, this story was the pinnacle moment in our marriage moving forward to become parents. […]

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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

Just Breathe….

Two things I wanted to gain a perspective on this past week was listening and breathing.  The first part I discussed in my previous posts.  The second part for me was to BREATHE.   How come I wanted to focus on that word?  I remember driving to our fertility doctors office in the city each […]

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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

An exercise….to listen

So on last post I only wrote the word LISTEN. It was an exercise for me….how hard can it be to listen?!?! Well, much harder than I thought. Today, I was driving in my car down this beautiful windy road on the river, it was covered with trees that were full of orange, red and […]

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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

Ten years ago….

Ten years ago on the last Thursday in September, my future husband asked me for my phone number.  I was out with a girlfriend, Melissa, who knew him from grade school.  I spotted that curly hair, big smile and dimples a mile away and we hit it off that night, although he was shy about […]

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