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"Karla, Thank You for Having Me" Two days after Easter this is the text that I received from my first cousin on my father's side, Harold Hayden.  I read the text and was immediately consumed with undefinable feelings.   It was me who needed to say, "Harold - thank you for reconnecting with me after 23 years."  I also needed to say many other things that were floating around in my head and in my heart, but I could not get them in an order that would make sense at the time - a jumbled up mess akin to pouring out the magnetic alphabet letters on the floor and desperately needing to place them in proper order on the refrigerator.  Isn't that life, though - messy at best, sometimes?  It seems to be my lot to constantly be attempting to put some order to the mess - at least to get things into their proper order or categories!  I decided that writing about Harold in this blog post would help me (and him) make at least a little sense of the power of reconnection. ...

Do You Need To Do Some Decluttering? Decluttering Hello Elementary Friends, The sermon series at my church, Saint Andrew UMC, for the weeks leading up to Easter is called "Decluttered."   The series is focused upon the fact that spring is often the time of year that we need to do some cleaning and organizing around our house.  The season of Lent, in a similar fashion, is the time to declutter the things in our lives that keep us from living an abundant life. Before I heard even one of Mark Feldmeir's sermons on the topic, I spent some time thinking about the act of decluttering.  It drew me to thinking about how we, as Americans, have a tendency to think we must surround ourselves with "things."  We then get so many "things" that we don't know what to do with them all.  We run out of room and we then have to move into a bigger house or we have to start the difficult tasks of determining what to get rid of to make room for more things.   When will i...