24 May 2022 0 Comment

Keep Calm and Carry On

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...
17 May 2022 0 Comment

Sabbath

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...
10 May 2022 0 Comment

“The Winter of Our Discontent”

 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...
3 May 2022 0 Comment

Being Like Little Children

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...
26 Apr 2022 0 Comment

Ambiguity

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.”...
19 Apr 2022 0 Comment

“God, Open My Lips…”

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...
12 Apr 2022 0 Comment

Not Peace, but a Sword

Author: Nicole Speer Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. ~Matthew 10:34 Since taking office almost 5 months ago I have been battling a growing sense of despair....
5 Apr 2022 0 Comment

Faith is the Bird

Author: Nancy Wade   “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore  Nearly seven years ago, political circumstances at work made it necessary for me to retire earlier than...
29 Mar 2022 0 Comment

The Vastness of Time

 Author: Carolyn Gard   "Geology has no more important lesson to teach than the vastness of time." Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. We have a set of books that we always take on road trips – Roadside Geology for each...
22 Mar 2022 0 Comment

Remembering the Victims

Author: Larry Dansky   “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” — Matthew 5:4 “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell Today marks the one-year anniversary of the mass...