by Laurie Short | Dec 20, 2013 | baby, Blessing, Buck4Good, Christmas, Compassion, Faith, Fully alive, generosity, gifts, giving, God, God's will, Grace, homelessness, Jesus, Perspective, Seeing, Stories
Have you ever given a gift that you didn’t intend to give? I was leaving my staff Christmas breakfast, and I had pulled out a couple bucks to tip the valet when two of my co-workers whispered “You gotta do $5 for this hotel.” My penny-pinching default...
by Laurie Short | Dec 12, 2013 | Blessing, Christmas, Faith, forgiveness, freedom, Fully alive, Grace, heroism, Madiba, Nelson Mandela, prejudice, prison, Uncategorized
Right in the middle of the Christmas season, the world buried a hero. And many of us took a pause in our shopping and celebrating to notice it. His country called him Madiba, but he was Nelson Mandela to those of us who beheld him from a distance. And at 95, his...