Bits of Being

thoughts on life, faith, family….and, yes, just learning to "be"

Category: Personal Growth

  • Setting New Year’s Graces (not Goals) for 2024

    Post Views = 880Every New Year’s Day for years, we have gathered as a family around our dining room table. Someone goes to a nearby wooden shelf and takes down a vase. They then proceed to pull out pieces of notebook paper with writing on them. Each paper goes to the person whose handwriting is…

  • A Blessing For The Later Years

    Post Views = 1077As time moves on and you feel a failing within your very bones,  May your falling be upward and not downward. As the years tick by and the path seems very steep ahead, May you march onward and not backward. As energy wanes and obstacles mount, May you not avoid the way…