“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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  • Hannah’s Prayer <p data-mce-style=“text-align: center;” style=“text-align: center;”><strong> <a class=“asset-img-link” data-mce-href=“https://pastortomsims.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b-pi&rdquo; href=“https://pastortomsims.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b-pi”><img alt=“Samuel name of god” class=“asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c745453ef02e860da53e3200b img-responsive"… Hannah’s Prayer Continue reading

  • Beautiful and prompted this reflection: Small movements and beginnings are only small if all we measure is the present.  Retrospective views widen our understanding and inform our sense of purpose in every moment.   Small is small thinking and small… Continue reading

  • Voltaire’s Garden

    Born this day in 1694 – Voltaire, French historian, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1778). He was an ardent critic of the church and Christianity and a Deist who wrote, "He challenged orthodoxy by asking: "What is faith? Is it to… Continue reading

  • Timely Quotes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    November 22, 1963 changed the world by one tragic event in Dallas, Texas. We were left without the wisdom , leadership, and energy of John F. Kennedy, but he did leave us a vision and great ideas, encapsulated in these… Continue reading

  • You Have Held God in Contempt Continue reading

  • Honey, You Are Bad Luck

    Photo by bennett tobias on Unsplash An 95 year old man was lying in bed dying. The doctor said he had minutes to live. His first and only wife was by his bedside to hear his dying words and comfort him. He began… Continue reading

  • Good Failure Continue reading

  • Watch Your Mouth Continue reading

  • Watch Your Mouth!

    Watch your mouth! Your parents may have said that at key moments in your youth when you ventured to utter the unutterable. The old pastor in the early church said it and his admonition is enshrined in in an epistle… Continue reading

  • The Seekers – Kumbaya Khumbaya, my Lord! Come by here.Yes. Yes. Yes.Make a way.Come and speak..Come and touch.Come and lead.Come and sit awhile among us.Come, instruct us.Come, teach us.Come and correct the errors of our ways … including …Several misconceptions… Continue reading

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