Author: Connie Perez

Celebrating today Mom’s 84th birthday. It’s been a beautiful but tough road for her along the way, and we are thankful to have her and get to blow out yet another birthday candle by her side today. ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Mom! Te queremos hoy y siempre. ♥ “But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture…

Thankful for God’s nudge. This is the season that kicks off my mindfulness and pushes me along to spiritual renewal (hoping for a year long-lasting effect). For me, Lent is not so much about what I give up, but instead it’s about what I want to take up: a positive outlook, patience, compassion, forgiveness….Most of all,…

Because I “get” to. I get to go to work and help provide for my family. I get to do the laundry and have fresh clean clothes. I get to stand in line at the grocery store and have food to eat. I get to sit through jury duty and not live in a communist…

I just checked my pulse. I’m still here. I am thankful. That simple. ♥Although at times I swear mine must look like this… “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” – H.W. Longfellow “Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or “spark.” The distinctive sound we hear through a…

I am thankful that I don’t know what comes next. I am a planner, hard-wired that way. I plan regardless. It keeps me hopeful.  Don’t worry. Plan. And see it through when given the opportunity. No time to waste. “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope…

For those signs and whispers from our Lord. How much stress and agony they save us when we live in awareness and listen. Shhhhh….Let’s tune in to His frequency, people! God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. -C.S. Lewis People are going to come…

Grateful for fresh starts. Not just for this brand new year, but for every morning. God gives us 86,400 seconds every day. How will we use them? My friends and family, let’s make them count! “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the…

Here we are, placing the period after that sentence. Can you say, “What a year!?” Seems like I say that at the end of every year. One thing’s for sure: Years — they are not boring. They keep us on our toes. With their tests, trials, tribulations, losses, gains, endings, renewals, and blessings. 2015 was no different. Thank…