“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
The country has been moving off of restrictions for a while now. As expected in some areas cases are climbing again. This is in part due to better testing, but the pandemic virus is still increasing again as well. Many people have responded to the loosening of restrictions by letting down their guard against the …
I have come across a surprisingly large number of people who are reluctant to wear a mask during this pandemic. The reasons are varied. “I don’t like wearing a mask, they are so uncomfortable. They hurt my ears.” “Masks are just plain annoying – you can’t see people’s faces and it’s hard to breathe.”“This is a …
For what are you grateful this day? In previous posts I have written about how gratitude is good for us emotionally and physically. Gratitude is the exciting new “star” in the emotional and physical health literature. And of course, being thankful is the most common admonition found in the scriptures. The Psalms tell us that …
The Psalms were written as prayers to God. In the Hebrew tradition the book was referred to as "The Prayers of David." Our God gave us this extensive collection of recorded prayers for a reason - they are patterns and models for our own thoughts and prayers every day. Paraphrasing the Psalms into prayers is …
Difficult passages in the life of a person, a community, or a nation often drive people to prayer. While prayer is always available to us, so many of us are not available to pray. We are too busy, to hurried, to distracted, and to selfish in our paradigms to stop to communicate with our God. …
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