Category Archives: Holidays

there are mothers….

In a perfect world Mother’s Day would look like a sentimental greeting card and life would be uninterrupted and simple. But life as we know it is not always that way. There are mothers whose children are incarcerated…I pray for them. There are mothers who are incarcerated…I pray for them. There are mothers who patiently…

Let her works praise her…

The work of a mother. Do we really need a national debate on such things? Mothers work. Period. I read recently on Ann Voskamp’s journal, “The real stars are always so small and so large.”  So it is with mothers. The work seems so small and yet raising lives is such grand work composed of…

Lead me…to the cross

For forty years I’ve heard the Scripture. I’ve seen movie portrayals of the Passion of Jesus, but this year it became real in a way that I neither anticipated nor prepared for. I sat in a meeting and we discussed how powerful it would be to have a cross made that was as close to…

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Love Your Neighbor

As the days to Christmas countdown, let us be reminded that “Christmas it seems can’t be bought in a store, Christmas, perhaps means a little bit more.” Let us love and embrace the unlovable this Christmas. Let us look around and notice the lesson in the star that shined so bright in the sky 2000…