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Reading Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts! See if there is any wicked in me, and lead me in the way...

Readings "Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will...

We have a Japanese Lilac Tree in our backyard. I love the shape of the tree and the oversized white flowers that appear in the spring....

I was picking up one last thing in the greeting card section of the grocery store earlier this week when all the lights blinked off. A...

I have been a bit like a yoyo this week. The weight of this past month has been catching up to me. It’s been a time of walking with...

There is a kind of knowing that’s hard to explain. It’s a truth beyond knowing; an awareness that is so real and convicting that you...

Send me your light and faithful care, let them lead me" Psalm 43:3 “I learned something important from my puppy,” a woman told me earlier...

“We all have the possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming." Maya Angelou I recently had the opportunity...

gather - to come together: assemble; to bring together and take in from scattered places or sources* The word gather is popping up in...

I heard something earlier this week that I have been carrying with me, "Problems come and go. God’s promises come and stay.”* Isn’t that...

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau I was outside near a park enjoying the sunshine when a...

The word that has been coming to me this week is hope. We all have hopes. Hopes for our children, our family, our friends, the world and...

"Give me the courage to live! Really live" Howard Thurman I had two surprising things happen to me yesterday. First, someone shook my...

How do you take the reality of Easter and make it real in your own life? Matthew tells us what the women did when they discovered that...

The moist and cool soil felt alive as I ran my fingers through it. I dug up a mum that had provided an interesting dome under the snow...

After Jesus died on the cross and had been buried for three days, stories began to circulate that his tomb was empty. Some reported that...

“The mind that comes to rest is tended in ways that it cannot intend” Wendell Berry I learned of a part-time job through a post on a...

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. " Theodore Roethke It’s been a winter wonderland around where I live this past month. I...

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold. ” Aristotle I have been thinking about the cold....

There is something that is easy to miss as we go about our day. God is with us and at work all around us. If we go to the highest...