It’s just a simple tag, but to some in the tiny church I attend in my little swath of the Midwest, it means a great deal. Every year around the start of the school year, the church I attend blesses the students and staff that are in school. They also bless backpacks, praying that everyone […]
Tag: wisdom
Perfectly acceptable
I haven’t written a great deal this week, as I am dealing with some mental blocks and an impending visit from some family members. But I wanted to sit down in the coolness of this early spring morning as the sun starts to peek through my eastern windows and write a bit of wisdom I […]
Open our eyes
Sometimes, when we’re writing our own stories, we tend to make ourselves look smarter and bigger and better. We close our minds to the ways of the world, accepting only a exclusive story of what has happened to us. We throw wisdom to the wind, as it were. It’s natural for us to become absorbed […]
It is what it is
Years ago, while I was still substitute teaching instead of working the full time job I work now, I subbed as a paraprofessional in a class for behavioral middle school students. The class was tasked with an assignment that day to draw a fish bowl. On the inside of the fish bowl, the students were […]
K. S. Wood Writes 