Day 12: It’s the world’s very best holiday playlist, EVER.
For friends new to The Daily Grace and for those long-timers who simply need a reminder: I've curated for us the world's very best holiday playlist and it's available to you right this very minute (and all through the holidays) right there on Spotify. My...
Day 11: Friendship Coffee
IT WAS EARLY October and Suzann and I were strolling along Main Street, enjoying the Fall Fling festivities in our small Southwest Virginia hometown. We stopped by a booth that featured pretty pottery and gorgeous wood products and we chatted with the young couple...
Day 10: Let’s be at peace with this.
Originally posted on The Daily Grace on November 30, 2020 THIS WEEKEND we secured, lit and (mostly) decorated our Christmas tree. My husband and I agree this is a major accomplishment because we’ve been married 18 years and he understands the #1 rule of the...
Day 9: Is there something waiting for me here?
FOR MANY YEARS I've followed Hannah Brencher, a questioner, a seeker, a believer who holds incredible wisdom for her (relative to me) young age. Among other things, she offers a beautiful Advent series to which I always subscribe, and this morning's email touched me...
Day 8: Ex—pec—ta—tion
I'VE SUNG IN a choir much of my life, first as a child at Gladeville Presbyterian in Wise, Virginia, and for the last 30 years at Providence Presbyterian in West Columbia, SC, the congregation I joined when, newly divorced and suddenly a single mom, I took my broken...
Day 7: Together.
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE to you Stella, Edwin and Ellie—the three who may well have had the finest time of all when we gathered for a family Thanksgiving atop beautiful Cats Mountain. Stella, or "Lella," as sweet 19-month-old Posey calls her, belongs with Tim and me....
Day 6: Darkness, and Light, and Advent
IT IS A PRACTICE that brings depth to the season and calm to my soul; a daily watching for the promise that when darkness surrounds, light is to come. This is Advent, to me. It's what we all want, is it not? What we need? To hang on? When life is hard, when the world...
Hi. I’m Cathy.
This is a blog about writing, creative living, and grace in the everyday. It’s my hope this little spot on the internet will be for you a place of quiet and reflection, a source for inspiration, and a reminder there’s beauty all around—we simply need to keep our hearts open to see it. Thank you for being here with me.