by Deb Kalmbach | Uncategorized
12 Pearls of Christmas: Gifts of Purpose Too Precious to Wearby Sarah SundinOne Christmas when my mother was a girl, she received a string of pearls from her father. Since her parents were divorced-an unusual situation in the 1950s-she treasured the pearls as a sign...
by Deb Kalmbach | loving others, Sean McCabe
Last Sunday afternoon, our community gathered to pay tribute and say good-bye to our friend, Sean McCabe. The gray, drizzly weather matched my feelings as we waited quietly to enter Liberty Bell High School’s gymnasium, packed with family and friends. His wife,...
by Deb Kalmbach | homeless, mental illness, Steve Lopez, The Soloist
I recently watched the movie The Soloist, a moving true story of Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, an enormously talented musician who is mentally ill and lives on one of L.A.’s most dangerous...
by Deb Kalmbach | Uncategorized
My mission is to help each person identify her strengths, take them seriously, and offer them to the world, states Marcus Buckingham in his new book, Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently (Thomas Nelson).My first thought:...
by Deb Kalmbach | God's faithfulness, grief, loss, suffering
It’s Saturday morning and I’m still wrapped in my bathrobe. Really, my favorite time of the week because I can sit quietly, no place to rush off to. Oh, there’s plenty to do…get ready for winter projects, housework, all those chores that...
