My Pet Orchid Author: Susan Rose Way back on November 23rd of 2019, a millennium ago in the era of pandemic, I gave a house concert. My gracious friend Monika attended, and brought me a gift of an exquisite white orchid, with two...

Faith Author: Nicole Speer So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. ~Galatians 6:9 As summer approaches I find myself thinking about summers I spent as a child at my...

Breath  Author:  Karen Hoover   I’ve been thinking about breath a lot recently. It obviously began with the COVID-19 pandemic when breathing and talking through masks became a necessity to protect ourselves and others....

Author: Nancy Stevens “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall,...

Author: Hilde Raastad There seem to be a lot of cracks right now. Life, for many of us, is not as it should be. There is unbelievable violence. There is grief. Anger. Loss of hope. Some of us might cope with these cracks better than...

Cake in the Time of Covid Author: Nancy Wade We have all been traumatized by the Pandemic; some have adapted more easily than others. I have to admit that from the time Covid-19 struck in mid-March until two or three weeks ago, I was...

Endurance Author: Nicole Speer By your endurance you will gain your souls. – Luke 21:19 We living our lives to eternal our soul – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, “Tha Crossroads*” Not surprisingly, living in a global pandemic has...

No One Is Alone Author: John Bisceglia "Do not fear for I am with you." Isaiah 41:10 Stephen Sondheim, in his musical "Into the Woods," tells us a modern-day fable in the form of old fairy tales with updated messages. In the first...

For Everything There is a Season Author: Jean Abott For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted….....

Judge Not Author: Nancy Wade  “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” Matthew 7: 1-2. In the midst of...