Spring Has Returned
Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.-Rainer Maria Rilke Today is cold with gray clouds covering the region. I sip hot tea and sit by the warm fire on this winter like...
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See, the winter is passed, the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth, the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. Song of Solomon 2:11-12 Yesterday was the...
View ArticleShalom
I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts.-Exodus 3:13 NIV At the beginning of 2012 after much thought and prayer, I selected a word for the...
View ArticleDaily
Give us this day our daily bread-Matthew 6:11 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens-Psalms 68:19 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his...
View ArticleMarch Days
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold ; when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens This quote by Dickens must have been written...
View ArticlePreparing for Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy. Exodus 20:8 Keep the Sabbath day to guard it. Deuteronomy 5: 12 “The Sabbath is about giving oneself joy in life.” -Rabbi Daniel Judson I do something a...
View ArticleThe Blessing of the Rain
May the blessing of the rain be on you— the soft sweet rain. May it fall upon your spirit so that all the little flowers may spring up, and shed their sweetness on the air. May the blessing of the...
View ArticleBeautiful in Time
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” -Ecclesiastes 3:11 You know, this tree was...
View ArticleOur Song
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair, we are the Easter people and Halleluiah is our song” -Pope John Paul II Wishing you a blessed Easter dear...
View ArticleEaster Promise
“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.” -Martin Luther The Pacific Northwest is all in bloom right now with pink pink cherry trees...
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