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“If it weren’t for change, there wouldn’t be butterflies.”  These were words a camper shared with me when I was a summer camp counselor.  Her home congregation was going through…

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,    and do not return there until they have watered the earth,making it bring forth and sprout,    giving seed to the sower…

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do…

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we…

I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait…

My freshman year of college, I went through a period where I loved Multigrain Cheerios. It was my go-to snack. So when I went to the grocery store one day…

Several years ago, I was overdue for some time alone, so I scheduled a massage, squeezing it into the only free hour I could find in my calendar. I couldn’t…

When we bought the house we live in now, there wasn’t a lock on the bathroom door. For the first couple of years, this didn’t bother me, and even made…

Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with my ninth grade English teacher, who to this day, is one of my favorite teachers.  It was delightful sitting down with her…

A former professor of mine once had two student volunteers come up front with their backpacks.  The professor asked them both if they thought they could climb a hill while…