God, Me & a Cup of Tea

   
 “What do you want to be remembered for?”
     This was the final question on a Q&A interview form I completed recently.
     “Encouraging others,” I wrote. “Bringing a smile to someone’s face. Lightening the burden they carry. Helping them believe in God’s love and unique purpose for them.”
      Encouraging others has been a lifelong desire. I can remember dressing up and performing, usually comedy acts, for family members when I was a preschooler. Bringing a smile to someone’s face has always been a driving force in my life. So has helping others. I can remember lying awake at night, dreaming of someday going to Third World countries and helping the people there.
     My life, however, took a different track, but I still have the desire to encourage, inspire, and to pass along the message of God’s love.
     May you find in these Web pages a cup of inspiration, a spoonful of encouragement and a generous outpouring of the milk of God’s love.
     Welcome to God, Me & a Cup of Tea!

2011 Speaking & Teaching Schedule:

Feb. 7: Ladies Winter Tea, South Hills Church of the Nazarene, Bethel Park, Pa.

Feb. 15: Punxsutawney Historical & Genealogical Society, Punxsutawney, Pa. (speaking on researching for historical fiction)

April 16: Writing Success XX (Christian Writers Conference), Emmanuel Christian Church, Stoneboro, Pa. (teaching two workshops: Writing Personal Experience Stories and Writing Effective Query Letters)

May 1: St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Punxsutawney, Pa.  Sunday morning service (pulpit supply)

May 12: Ladies Lilac Tea, Seneca Hills Bible Camp (near Franklin, Pa.)

May 29: St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Punxsutawney, Pa. Sunday morning service (pulpit supply)

June 22: St. Davids Christian Writers Conference, Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. (canceled due to surgery on June 6)

July 10: St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Punxsutawney, Pa.  Sunday morning service (pulpit supply)

July 28-Aug. 1: The Writing Academy Writer's Weekend, Mt. Olivet Retreat Center, Minneapolis

Aug. 28: St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Punxsutawney, Pa.  Sunday morning service (pulpit supply)

Sept. 30, Oct. 1: "Meet Me at the Well" Punxsutawney Christian Women's Conference, First Church of God, Punxsutawney, Pa. (conference director)

Oct. 14-15: Women's retreat, Summit United Methodist Church, Erie, Pa.

Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25: St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Punxsutawney, Pa. Sunday morning service (pulpit supply)


2012 Speaking & Teaching Schedule:

April 28: Cooperstown United Methodist Church, Ladies Brunch, Cooperstown, Pa.

• I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. ~ Abraham Lincoln

• Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum

• Bloom where you’re planted.

• Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His word and taking the next step. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

• If all you ever attempt is that which you know you can do or have the resources for, how will you ever discover what He can do? ~ Anne Graham Lotz, My Jesus Is . . . Everything

• The solutions to all our problems are more of the heart than of the law.

• Our intellect and other gifts have been given to be used for God's greater glory, but sometimes they become the very god for us . . . We are losing our balance when this happens. We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full. ~ Mother Teresa
  

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