I am blessed to live with someone who loves to garden and has a talent for making beautiful places.  My part is to do a little dead-heading, and offer ideas, and appreciate what he has done.  What a deal! Today I was eating my morning cereal while rocking gently on the lawn swing, listening to [...]

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I have an assignment to write a short story themed on “love.”  What a huge topic!  How can I say anything new about it?  How can I come up with a story that is not smarmy and trite?  The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that everything is love – [...]

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Why a star?  To me, it is a sign of the presence of the Kingdom, not only around us in this world, but the limitless universe as well.  The material world with which we are familiar is what we can perceive with the senses we have.  Even looking out into space, at all the stars, [...]

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Epiphany is approaching fast – January 6, this Wednesday.  It is a time to celebrate the various manifestations of God, especially the Star of Bethlehem, which is the first manifestation to the Gentiles. The people of Bethlehem, good Jews all, no doubt, were absorbed in the crush and press of people, all swarming into the [...]

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