Category: Making a Difference
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. ~Anias Nin Living in today’s environment is not easy. Many voices clamor to make sense of this moment in history. Amidst all the clatter, I experience myself being…
Why do conservative Christians emphasize the Ten Commandments … insisting they be posted in schools and public buildings … instead of emphasizing and posting the central message of Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount … the Beatitudes? That’s something…
Memoirs are my favorite genre. I appreciate learning about people outside my circle … my personal community. Additionally, when I read about courageous and inspiring people, it gives me hope. I need their examples to undergird the qualities I seek…
Happy Valentine’s Day Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. ~Maya Angelou Recently this book came as a recommendation from the author of one of my favorite books. I’m…
A new commandment I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. ~Jesus of Nazareth in John…
After awakening this morning at 3:30 to go to the bathroom, my hip (strained a muscle doing yard work) was hurting and I couldn’t go back to sleep. And so, I turned on the heating pad and the TV to…
Marguerite Ann (Schaedel) Rece … 12/5/34 – 6/13/24 As promised in my last post, I will share more about Margie’s life with the help of the obituary her oldest daughter, Julie, wrote … words that captured her mother’s spirit so…
In my last post, I wrote about the experience of becoming a leader in my congregation. That experience set me on a path I never could have imagined. It was definitely Divinely guided. And it took some generous friends and…
One of my readers contacted me outside this site. She forwarded me information on discernment that is used in a women’s prayer group she belongs to. This group has grown from 8 or 9 to around 45 women. They have…
Today we hear many people declaring that they are spiritual not religious. I am one of those people. For me, church and religion are not about dogma (principles concerning faith and morals proclaimed as true by an authority and/or the…
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