“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • The Courage to be a Peacemaker

    Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace." "Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Where are the instruments of God's peace in the world? Are we praying to be counted among… Continue reading

  • What’s Trending?

      Things that deserve my attention today:   #1 – Being in an honest and transparent relationship with God and with the people in my life.   #2 – Making positive change in the world in those areas where I… Continue reading

  • How Many Changers Does It Take to Change?

    What about an extreme makeover – spiritual edition? Continue reading

  • A Prayer for You and Me

    Sunday’s sermon from John 17 with slides and study guide. Continue reading

  • Ready or Not

        I am in a state of unready readiness.   God of readiness, of constancy, and of mystery, Invade me, overthrow my stubborn reluctance and Disperse my stagnant sentries who stagger the soul And stalwartly resist that which you… Continue reading

  • Deconstruction or Destruction?

      The Acronym, PAUSE Parse Aggregate Understand Simplify Expand How about a hope of RECONSTRUCTION? Continue reading

  • Old Mothers

    “… despise not thy mother when she is old.” -Proverbs 23:22b  Your Mother When She Is Old We need as many “old mothers” as we can get in the church and in our lives. We need to honor the older… Continue reading

  • A Day of Prayer – Reflections on This Day

      This is prayer.   We move in the direction of God.   The movement itself is far more important that the words we use or the sentiments we experience. It is the movement that expresses the true intentions of… Continue reading

  • Holiness

      Shai Halevi on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority - Enlargement of image at Wikimedia-Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/1039-1_for_screen.jpg Close-up of paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll, now at the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem Today, I seek from God what I must give to God. It is… Continue reading