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“The promise is for you and your children . . .” Acts 2 “God’s own child I gladly say it, I am baptized into Christ.” From the song of the same name. As you reflect upon your life, what memorable events have made the biggest impression? Your graduation from high school or college? Your wedding?…

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.  There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Rumi “I swear to you, on all that is beautiful on earth.”[1]  Dada I’ve been inundated by beauty; in the colors of fall, in the mama moose and her calf that have been hanging around,…

“Come Follow Me”  Jesus “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.” Psalm 23 How do you see your life?  More specifically, how do you see your faith life? Ever since I went to Iona in 2015 I have seen mine as a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is different from a walk,…

“When I look at the work of your hands . . . what am I that You are mindful of me?”  Psalm 8 “Between every two Aspen trees is a doorway to a new world.”  John Muir Fall has come to the Rocky Mountains; The days are getting shorter, temps are going lower, bears are…

“Fear Not, for behold I bring you Good News of Great Joy.”  Luke 2:10 “Perfect Love casts out all fear.” 1 John 4:18 “God has not given us a Spirit of fear, but of power and love and self control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 “The Little Warrior” is the name of a commercial sponsored by Hyundai…

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started from and know the place for the first time.”  From “Little Gidding” by T.S. Elliot How do you view your life?  By that, I mean, do you see it as a linear journey?  Kind of…

“The crowds followed Him, and He welcomed them, and spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and healed all their diseases.” Luke 9:11 “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.”  Jill Jackson-Miller, and Sy Miller “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?”  Some of us over the age of…

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb, I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139 “According to His great mercy God has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”  1 Peter 1:3 “I told them of the love my mama sewed in…

“There was a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.” Mark 5:25 “To heal I to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.”  Stephen Levine “Don’t have a holy hemorrhage.”  That used to be a figure of speech that pertained to a person having a hissy fit (another…

“Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven , , , where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  Jesus in The Gospel of Matthew, chapter six. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”  “One person’s nuclear waste is another one’s potpourri.”  The Grinch “The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground…