by Amy Bretall | Feb 26, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Inspired, Life
Talking with a good friend last year I shared my reading of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life book. She told me she read it a handful of years ago. Really? We used to work together and would share books we were reading, but this one was not mentioned. In...
by Amy Bretall | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog, Inspired, Life, Love
One year before she passed, my grandmother by blood moved from a space she lived for 72 years- 59 years with grandpa and 13 years on her own after he passed. Seventy-two years in the same house. 72 years.Visiting her several times before she moved she said she will...
by Amy Bretall | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Inspired
Along my spiritual journey last year I had several signs of three. It took the 3rd for me to receive the nudge, to hear the hint, to get the message. One of these started last February with a friend mentioning Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life. Had I...
by Amy Bretall | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog, Inspired, Life
My mother recently gave me a gift—the view into a time passed. A photo of my sister (right) and I (left), she age 3 and me age 2. Since receiving I have been thinking about this image. My mom digitalized all the old “slides” from the 1970’s. I remember...
by Amy Bretall | Oct 15, 2016 | Blog, Inspired, Life, Love
Yesterday I posted about meeting a little girl in Cuba. Today I want to share how I found her. A day after meeting this little girl in Cuba (one year ago), I was still thinking about her. Having dinner the prior evening with Santana, a local taxi driver we met and...
by Amy Bretall | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog, Inspired, Love
One year ago today, October 14, 2015, while traveling in Cuba, I met this little girl. Walking outside of Ernest Hemingway’s estate to see more of how Cubans really live, I took a photo of the surrounding neighborhood, turned around, and there she was… just...
