Slowly but surely, I’m getting my house all decked out for Christmas. My tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving. Alexa knows exactly what carols to play to […]
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Faith in Focus: Psalm 112:4-5
Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous. Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct […]
Faith in Focus: Psalm 36:5-7
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people […]
Down By the Riverside: What I Know
Some days feel heavier than other days. Hours are long, conversations sober, sometimes, tears. Life here is like that sometimes. And I don’t know why. I don’t know why terrible […]
‘Quiet, Delicate Snowflakes’ Can Even Make a Difference
Journeying With Jesus, and Jon (the Methodist) By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35 Though many 21st-century Christians […]
Faith in Focus: Dove
Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift, and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do […]
Faith in Focus: Wild Horse
Psalm 147:10-11 His pleasure is not in the strength of a horse, nor His delight in the legs of a warrior;the Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put […]
Down by the Riverside: Take Time to Be
– Rev. Vickie Woolard, Pastor at Plymouth UMC I’ve been meaning to stop and check the mail at the farm for days. I’d drive in the lane – on my […]
Down by the Riverside: Precious to God
– Rev. Vickie Woolard, Pastor at Plymouth UMC I rested awhile this afternoon in the cool of a church not my own, listening to a choir practice their Sunday morning […]