LZ-Grace Veterans Retreat – We Heal The Living
Knowing freedom is to free someone else. I’ve come to know that where there is damage and pain there is also truth to be found. And when one of us somehow finds our way out of the abyss or the tunnel...
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Excerpt from: Married to the SEAL Teams: Lessons in Love You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the...
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Excerpt Chapter from Married to the SEAL Teams: Lessons in Love Love is a constant trying and reaching and failing and falling and trying all over again. ~LB I am sitting on an antique chintz sofa at...
View ArticleRainy Morning Letters – Moon Dance in Baguio (revisited)
It is only by risking ourselves from one hour to another that we live at all. ~William Jones Late at night we gossip about small events and the largeness of life. The darkness softens and I am nearly...
View ArticleThe Grace of our need… is Love
I would seek for you and me a world that humans too seldom enter, for it exists only in the moment when strong men and women seek uniqueness, strive for freedom and join themselves in the struggle for...
View ArticleFounded by Grace…
Everything comes with risk, but when a Warrior lives through war and lands at LZ-Grace, it is to overcome, reconnect to family and community and achieve the peace that comes from within. When we...
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Excerpt from Married to the SEAL Teams: Lessons in Love “You have the power to heal yourself, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power...
View ArticleLove Never Fails
Each and every year we were married – no matter where he was in the world – Steve sent me roses on HIS birthday. The odd tradition began after our first year of marriage. He was away on a “work trip”...
View ArticleMy Side of Heaven
Even in my dreams you take my hand and lead me to places where words tumble from a secret place. You decorate and dazzle me with brilliant color and velvet texture. Falling leaves I can feel under my...
View ArticleMake a Promise – Pass it On
“We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let’s teach our children to be thinkers.” ~Fresco My friend, Brenda, showed up in my dreams last night seriously concerned about the...
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