I have great kids. For Christmas, the presents from each of them included monetary gifts to RAIHN, a shelter for homeless women and one to Alternatives for Battered Women, where I voluteer. (They know their Mom.)

Another gift was a set of notecards, created by my daughter, with quotes about living life well, written in India Ink and brushed with water colors. Here are the quotes:

We make a life by what we give.  Winston Churchill

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.  Abraham j. Heschel

We are never called by the Spirit to move backwards.  Ed Townley

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.  Anais Nin 

The cure for anything is salt water–sweat, tears or the sea.  Isak Dinsen

Wine is living proof that God loves us and wants  us to be happy. (I think this one was made  up by her.)

I’m feeling very lucky to have these children in my life this 2013.

Happy New Year.