I'm a life long learner. I believe there's always something new to learn no matter what your age. So as 2015 comes to a close, I thought I'd take the opportunity to list some of the things I learned this past year. 1. I love teaching my very own class of little ones. I really didn't expect to have a second career.  For 25 years I worked as a cardiac nurse and finally retired. But sometimes life happens in unexpected ways. It's a long story but I'm now a preschool teacher. I'm so glad I worked with Heidi for four years first a…

Today I'm linking up for One Word Advent with Bonnie of Faith Barista . Our writing prompt for this week is LOVE . Oh that word love! As a young woman, my mother told me I was in love with love. You know, the romance; flowers, soft music, candlelit dinners. It was the ideal I had in my head. But life happens and love didn't always live up to that vision.  It became easy to cover my heart to shield it from any possible further pain.  But God's love is different.  Maybe you know the verse from 1 Corinthians 13 as love is described.  Love is pat…

What is the one most important thing our society needs?  This is the question posed in the movie Miss Congeniality  starring Sandra Bullock. Listen to the answers from the beauty pageant contestants. (If you cannot view video, click here ) It seems that every time I turn on the television to watch the news there is another ALERT . A horrific bombing, a shooting, terrorism, hate groups. While many are bent on destruction, most in our society would claim to desire ... world peace. But is that really possible in our world today? I am linking up with Bonnie of …