Do you ever find yourself at a loss of things to say when someone tells you that a person close to you or to them has died? Last week a friend of mine from many years ago passed along to her Great Reward. Unfortunately for health reasons I was not able to attend her Going ...
Continue reading about Resting in Peace – a brief prayer for the departed
If you’re not familiar with the season of Advent as part of your spiritual practice, a short intro: The Western Christian church has two great contemplative “seasons” in the liturgical year: the opening act before Easter, the 40 days of Lent (we’ll talk about that later in the year) and the First season of ...
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Not every soldier in the Great Battle wears camo. I thought it would be appropriate to submit this on Memorial Day weekend… as we take time to remember our own… Aunt Ida Pieces A Quilt by Melvin Dixon They brought me some of his clothes. The hospital gown. Those too-tight dungarees, his blue choir robe ...
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Today is the annual Day of Silence, a day when we stop, in silence, to support our kids and protect them from bullying, abuse, name-calling and harrassment in schools. Not only our children in College, but all the way down into the grades. As long as these children have to face this abuse, we must ...
After Easter Sunday, the Easter “Season” is not quite over, not by a longshot! In the Christian Church, what follows the story of the Passion of Christ is the time that the returned Christ walked among his followers until ascending into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, as the Nicene Creed says. ...
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