Oneness Author: Larry Dansky Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it is the ocean. – Thich Nhat Hanh There is a story about a young couple who brought home their newborn from the hospital. They already had a two-year-old son,...

Author: Amy Ostwald   You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises to You and not be silent. Oh Lord my God, I will give You...

Author: Bob von Trebra   Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were...

Author: Chris Braudaway-Bauman   As I’ve been getting ready for my sabbatical, the light touch of author Anne Lamott has offered me some humorous encouragement. “Sometimes the best thing we can do is plant our butt on a rock...

 Author: Linda Kowatch   While William Shakespeare opened with those famous words in Richard III, it seems somewhat descriptive of what we have been experiencing the past 23 months. We have faced so much trauma through Covid...

Author: Larry Dansky   When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. Corinthians 13:11   At this time the...

Author: Jean Abbott Loss comes in many forms and throughout life. I learned fairly early about Ira Byock’s book, The Four Things That Matter Most: saying “Forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you.”...

By Lynn Klyde-Allaman   “God, open my lips, that my mouth may declare your praise.”   These words open the T’filah, one of the main prayers in the Jewish Sabbath service. “T’filah” literally means  “the...