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What I Am Learning During The Pandemic: Listening to Those I Disagree With
In our previous blog, Maryanne talked about what she has learned during the pandemic. This week, I’d like to share something I’m learning...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Aug 12, 20203 min read
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What I am learning during the pandemic!
This is what I have been learning throughout this darn pandemic. Fact checking is a necessity - I have found that you cannot believe...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Aug 4, 20203 min read
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Easter 2.0 in Review
In Romans 12:2 Paul shares this insight “ Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Jun 7, 20203 min read
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Dealing with Life’s Ebbs and Flows: Living the Resurrection
Just this morning, Maryanne, our mentor and friend Bob Sitze (from fullofyears.org), and I were talking about the changes that we as a...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
May 28, 20203 min read
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Stressed?
As Henrieta and I were working on a project the subject of stress came up. We talked about stress and how we each deal with it. Henrieta...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
May 20, 20203 min read
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The Collected Wisdom of Suffering
Nobody wants suffering. When I was a little girl, I remember looking through old photographs and asking my mother about the lives of...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
May 11, 20205 min read
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Opportunities
Last week I was talking with an older friend. He was sharing his concerns over the situation with covid-19, and some real fears around...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
May 5, 20203 min read
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The Power of Now: Resilience as a Way of Life
Welcome to Easter 2.0! In the Christian calendar, the season of Easter lasts until Pentecost, which happens 50 days after Easter. This...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Apr 29, 20203 min read
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A Caring Lent 2020 - Holy Week
Alleluia – Christ has risen, He has risen indeed! Our 40 days of Lent for 2020 is over, and our Caring Lent invitation is at an end. We...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Apr 13, 20203 min read
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A Caring Lent - Week 6
A friend of mine called and shared that with everything going else going on the Lenten season just went "out the window". She wanted...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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A Caring Lent - Week 5
Did you know that spring officially began on March 19th, 2020 and that there is something very special about this year's spring date? It...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Mar 30, 20202 min read
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A Caring Lent - Week 4
My how time flies when the events of the world are spinning around us! We are now in the 4th week of our A Caring Lent series. There are...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Mar 23, 20202 min read
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A Caring Lent - Week 3
We are now well into the Lent season. Between the Coronavirus, the elections and just plain living, I have found it hard to focus on...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Mar 16, 20203 min read
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A Caring Lent Weeks 1 and 2
For Lent 2020 Henrieta and I decided to create the theme - A Caring Lent. We wanted to focus on taking on one small thing each day to...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Mar 8, 20203 min read
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Let's Talk
Henriet, I and another friend Mary, just led a Saturday morning women's retreat. I enjoy planning and leading retreats because they...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Feb 17, 20202 min read
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THE ART OF COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS
One of the values that Maryanne and I have put in our mission statement is that we work on connecting people to the communities they are...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Feb 10, 20204 min read
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Conversations
My son is currently studying in Shanghai, China. He picked his graduate program specifically because of the opportunity to live and...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Feb 4, 20202 min read
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This I Believe
Recently Henrieta and I put a Statement of Faith section on our website. It is vital to us that the statement fits each of our personal...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Jan 28, 20202 min read
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Can We Talk?
For the last three years, in almost every group I am in and in most events that Henrieta and I attend, it is stated or understood that we...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Jan 20, 20204 min read
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Word of the Year
Happy New Year! The start of a new year presents us with a clean, new slate and it is a natural time to set new intentions or goals for...
Maryanne Kyle-DiPietropaolo
Jan 10, 20203 min read
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