a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

I was reading a script of the film The Theory of Everything about the life of Stephen Hawking yesterday and he gives this speech at the end of the movie. It’s a wonderful reminder as we begin a new year that where there’s life, there’s hope. Ever since the dawn of civilisation, people have craved…

As we begin to turn our gaze to a new year, this morning I was reminded of a passage of scripture that guides us to consider how every life and every year has seasons. Which season might you be entering in 2025? There is a time for everything,    and a season for every activity under the heavens:…

The story of Christmas is the yearly reminder love is expressed through the gift of creation. For one day there was no child in a manger, and the next there was. And in that moment of creation all was revealed – hope, holiness, and love. Wishing you and yours the happiest of days this Christmas.

Madeline L’Engle wrote a lovely poem called “First Coming” that ends with this stanza: We cannot wait till the world is saneto raise our songs with joyful voice,for to share our grief, to touch our pain,He came with Love: Rejoice! Rejoice! Over the next 48 hours those in the Christian faith will celebrate the central…

“He is our life-long pattern,” read the lyric last night in the hymn talking about the birth and life of Jesus. The idea of a life-long pattern is fascinating. Some of us build skills and habits we nurture over a lifetime. But it’s interesting to consider if we have a life-long pattern and on whom…

I was watching my son cook last night and he was adding herbs to a dish and mentioned he had learned from a cooking class you can use the stem in a dish, like rosemary or thyme.  He offered me the stem and I smelled it and he was right. And it suddenly made sense…