When Life Is Heavy

Are you at one of those places in life when you feel like you can't take much more? Like you've almost reached your "last nerve?" Well, just recently, a friend sent me some incredibly timely words - written many years ago - that my mind, soul, and heart especially needed to hear and be reminded [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:23:12-05:00September 21st, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on When Life Is Heavy

Don’t Quit

Recently a couple recommended a book to me by Chaplain, Major General Robert Preston Taylor, Days of Anguish, Days of Hope, published by Doubleday & Company, 1972. In it the author described details about the war, the "Death March," and much more. As I read through the chapters and envisioned all the things he experienced, [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:23:15-05:00September 13th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Don’t Quit

Through the Storm

Experienced a storm lately? ... Or, maybe you're going through one right now, even as you're reading this message?  Recently when I was speaking at NeuroRestorative Texas, Rick passed along to me a poem that one of his friends at Tarleton State University had written back in 1980:    When life is full of sunshine [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:23:17-05:00September 5th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Through the Storm

Where Are You Turning For Help

Recently, I heard a former self-centered business guy say, "Dare to dream GOD's dream for your life." It wasn't until his god of money and his love of money and ego and power were knocked to the ground that he turned to the LORD for his help from that point on. How about you... Dare [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:23:19-05:00August 25th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Where Are You Turning For Help

Words To Invest In

Whatever you're dealing with right now...whatever you're having to face...whatever decision you're struggling with, I urge you to invest your faith and 5 senses in these 6 words Corrie ten Boom reminded herself of: "Where the Lord guides, He provides." Don't give up Hope...it's right there with you.

By |2016-06-09T16:23:20-05:00July 5th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Words To Invest In

June 18, 2002

In an instance, life can change dramatically, never to be the same again...(from COPING with TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: One Woman's Journey from Death to Life; available at www.pattifoster.com) This is what happened to four of us (along with our families) as we made our way to our last Bible Study meeting on June 18th in [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:17:13-05:00June 18th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on June 18, 2002

Along The Journey…

A lot of people are making a lot of changes ... everything from graduating high school to moving away and beginning college; some are starting a new career while others are taking their first steps of being parents. Some are making every attempt to retire gracefully while, at the other end of the spectrum, some [...]

By |2016-06-09T16:17:18-05:00June 7th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Along The Journey…

Learning from History

Recently, while speaking at SMU, Rosa Blum, a Holocaust survivor, "shared her experience from dark days of WWII." (Ben Tinsley; Texas Jewish Post; April 30, 2015) She and her wealthy family were taken by the Nazis from their home in Romania to Auschwitz in Poland. As the Q&A time was in progress there at SMU's Elizabeth [...]

By |2016-11-01T10:08:36-05:00June 3rd, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Learning from History

Courage Under Pressure

Like many of you are well aware of, some strong, even disastrous, storms moved through the area recently. In your own life, when storms wreak havoc on your family, your friendships, your decisions, your classes, your jobs, etc., does your fortitude take a stand or does it do the "easy thing" and "sweep it (the [...]

By |2016-11-01T10:08:37-05:00May 11th, 2015|M.A.D. Now!, Patti's Brain Waves|Comments Off on Courage Under Pressure
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