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  • On Fanny’ Crosby’s Birthday – March 24, 2025

    A longer version is at: https://medium.com/@tomsims/remembering-fanny-crosby-be8751513645   "Frances Jane Crosby, usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. During her lifetime, she was well known throughout the United States. By the…

  • To Tell the Truth

    It has been observed that if you tell a lie enough, people will believe and even good people will start repeating it. Because they are good people, others will believe it as well based upon their credibility. If constant exposure to misinformation, partial information, shallow observations, and deception will result in people believing false narratives,…

  • Turn Around – You Are Going the Wrong Way

      Turn Around; You Are Going the Wrong Way Jesus could tell by the questions and the attitude behind them that the crowd was going the wrongs way, thinking the wrong way, and heading on a path toward destruction. Are you familiar with Newton’s third law?  It simply states that for every action there is…

  • Four Shorts for a Saturday – Devotional Mediations

    A Prayer from the Vineyard Isaiah 5:1-7 I will sing for the one I lovea song about his vineyard:My loved one had a vineyardon a fertile hillside.He dug it up and cleared it of stonesand planted it with the choicest vines.He built a watchtower in itand cut out a winepress as well.Then he looked for…

  • World Poetry Day

    It is World Poetry Day. It is also Bach Day. Born this day in 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach, German Baroque composer and musician (d. 1750). Poetry and Bach on the same day! What a treat! Here is an hour and a half. Of Bach. Listen while you read wonderful poetry. According to the UNESCO web…

  • World Poetry Day. It is World Poetry Day. | by Tom Sims , Ongoing Conversation Between Friends | Mar, 2025 | Medium

    According to the UNESCO web site: World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. In difficult times, do not forsake the beauty and picturesque power of words to move, soothe, and comfort the soul and to stir our resolve to think and to do. via medium.com

  • A Moment of Respite

    Photo by Jan Canty on Unsplash Mystically meandering, Meditation. Relax, Unplug, Disconnect to Reconnect. Listen with your heart and not just your ears. Lean back. Lean in. A magnificent offering of choral worship. Psalm 133 Ecce, quam bonum! Oh, how good and pleasant it is, * when brethren live together in unity! It is like fine oil upon…

  • Elevate Your Social Media Presence

      I work here. Seriously, it may seem that I am always on social media, but I am working. A large part of my parish is here and I am here to be your pastor. I am reading, studying, collecting, archiving, curating, and sorting through research. I am networking and building relationships with real people…

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe – Lincoln called her the little lady who started the big war

    Lincoln called her the little lady who started the big war. It was a compliment. She elevated a conversation that needed to be vocalized.

  • You Are the King

    You Are the King   What does it mean to be king? It is an awesome responsibility, and you cannot pass it on to anyone else. Watch it here: Or watch it here: Everyone needs a voice. You are the voice of citizenship. I left out, “promote the general welfare.” https://wednesdayinamerica.com