Unique as a Snowflake
It's snowing this morning—large flakes floating down lazily from the sky. I sat and watched for awhile, mesmerized by the peacefulness of...
DIANE O'CONNOR
designer - catalyst - coach
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Diane O'Connor
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Build Community
A FOCUS FOR 2022 As 2021 was coming to a close, I was asking the Lord to show me what I should focus on as we entered 2022. I kept...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Little Yellow House
A Story of Transformation "If I were a house I’d be a little yellow house, with gables, a white spindled porch, cascading flower boxes,...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 24, 2021
- 4 min
Resurrected Dreams
After I became a Christ-follower, I desperately wanted to clarify my calling and serve the Lord with everything I had. I began thinking...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
Inside-Out
INSIDE OUT ART PRINT by Kerri Rosenthal "Inside-out" is a theme in my life. Over the years, God has woven inside-out thinking into the...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
Handling Conflict
Handling Conflict - A Key to Healthy Relationships I asked myself,"Who should I be leading?," and then I boxed in five leadership domains...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
Three Life Lessons From a Poppy Painting
BLUE VASE POPPIES, MIXED MEDIA ACRYLIC, 16 x 20 Life Lesson 1: If you do not like the direction life is going, try changing your...
Diane O'Connor
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Yo-Yo? Or Railroad Tracks?
We may often feel like the journey of our lives is full of "highs and lows," or "best and worst experiences." I've often heard the...
Diane O'Connor
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
Shalom in the Chaos
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
A Different Way to Help — 2: Exploring Solutions
In Part 1: The Dilemma, I concluded that we live in a world of urgent physical, emotional, and spiritual need—and we desperately want to...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Different Way to Help — 1: The Dilemma
There's a lot of talk right now about "need" and "systems being broken." I see many good-willed people scrambling to understand and...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Comma
One day on the Sabbath Jesus stood up in the temple to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it he found...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 18, 2020
- 7 min
Urgent!
With the downward spiral of everything in the world right now I'm feeling a sense of urgency. Not a panic, but a compelling nudge
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
Small Things
I came across this print in my art room this week. I hadn't seen it for years, but it triggered all kinds of emotions and memories. When...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
My Story—Unsuccessful Bridge-Builder
AN UNSUCCESSFUL BRIDGE-BUILDER [My story—The Short Version] God placed me in a great family in a suburb of Milwaukee, and my childhood...
Diane O'Connor
- Aug 25, 2020
- 4 min
Complete Unity
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one,...
Diane O'Connor
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
Building Trust
Trust - The Key to Healthy Relationships “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” George MacDonald I've been thinking a...
Diane O'Connor
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Everyday Miracles
I love summer! I look forward each winter to days of sunshine and warmth. I'm outside as much as possible—it seems I have a renewed sense...
Diane O'Connor
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
Radiate Hope
"Now may God, the inspiration and fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in Him....
Diane O'Connor
- Jun 24, 2020
- 4 min
Under the Desk
I remember the threat of communism as a child . . . and the possibility of physical attack. The cold war started in 1947. It was a stand...