There’s an often told Jewish tale about a rabbi asking his students how they can tell a new day has dawned upon the earth. One student said, “Well, you can tell it is a new day when there is enough light to see the difference between an apple tree and a pear tree.” It was… Read More »

My article this month is in two parts. By now you have seen for yourselves the devastation brought about by Hurricane Harvey. As you offer your prayers, you may also decide to give an over and above monetary donation to help with the relief efforts. I encourage you to do so by making out your… Read More »

For your summer reading I am going to share a few quotes and remind you of a children’s story. Jesus said, “You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32). I think as Christians we would agree that Jesus spoke the truth and came to set us free. Truth is… Read More »

Most of us have read “To Kill A Mockingbird.” If you’ve read the book then you might recall when Scout talks to her father about the case. She asks him if ‘we’ are going to win and he tells her no. She then asks, “Then why…” and he says something like, “Just because we’re going… Read More »

There is a story told about WW II American soldiers who were fighting in the rural countryside of France. One of their friends was killed during the battle and they did not want to leave his body on the battlefield. They remembered a church a few miles from the front that included a cemetery enclosed… Read More »

This year March 1st not only begins a month it begins our season of Lent with Ash Wednesday. Although I grew up in the church, I did not grow up practicing Lenten devotional practices or even going to Ash Wednesday services, they weren’t part of my church’s tradition. We are blessed to be able to… Read More »

Soon we will be launching our new website. Stacey Sofoul has been working countless hours on this project. Even if we were to pay him a penny an hour, we could not afford it. Seriously, tens of thousands of hours have gone into this project. Why is launching a new website so important? Because the… Read More »

As I write this Christmas will soon be here, some of us still have shopping and wrapping to do, and then there will be the unwrapping and the playing/using/wearing part, kind of like the way a New Year might work too. Just like Christmas the New Year is not quite here, but it will be… Read More »

Cindy loves word games, she is a Scrabble specialist, and she is also great at acronyms, and all kinds of letter games which is why I have written my article the following way. ‘C’ words: Cindy. Courageous. Those two words belong together not only because both begin with a ‘C’ but because the word ‘courageous’… Read More »

If you’ve ever traveled in the deep country, nothing but dirt roads, then you’ve probably seen the sign, “Pick your rut carefully, you’ll be in it for the next 20 miles.” You know what it is like. A story is told of a frog who was hopping across a dirt road and he fell into… Read More »