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Everyone likes good things. From warm cookies and hot coffee to special finds. From a cause that’s doing some good for a troubled world to a nice hand lotion. Introducing a new blog that will roundup all the good things…
In 2020, I used the social network, Goodreads, to track my reading. As news about the coronavirus, the election rhetoric, and the constant opportunities to self-isolate and shelter in place orders kept us stuck at home,…
Anne Lamott’s words smacked me in the head. “My pastor, Veronica, said yesterday that God constantly tells us to rejoice, but to do that, to get ’joice back, we need to have had joy before. And it’s never been needed as…
For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth: … a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; … a time to keep silent, and a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3:1,…
A friend of mine once got me so excited about giving up something for Lent, I couldn’t wait until Ash Wednesday. At the time, I don’t think I even understood what Lent was. I’m not sure, even now, I absolutely…
It’s my favorite thing to say on someone’s birthday. It is after all the start of that person’s very own new year. Here I am today at the beginning of my own. Often, I take stock. Look around for something important to…
Traditionally, Epiphany marks the visit of the Magi to the Christ child. The three wisemen we often see crashing the crèche actually arrived a little later in the story. In reading up on Epiphany, I turned to one of my…
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body.” Matthew 26:26, nET I cannot remember the last time I had the privelege to…
Replete, from the Latin verb plēre, means “to fill.” Because we know that the Latin prefix “re” means back or again, it makes sense that replete would mean “to fill again.” But it doesn’t. According to Merriam-Webster:…