How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts! My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O…
What is our heritage of thankfulness? Join Jeanette-Marie Mirich as she shares her thoughts on this holiday of gratitude.
The hot wind of summer brushed across the grasses as we hiked among the rocks. The Isle of Skye proved to be a place of reflection as the twisting roadways opened to sheep-strewn Scottish hillsides.
There are people who stay put. They like their hearth, the change of season from their living room window, and the perfume of the roses wafting through the screen door. Then there are those with itchy feet.
A whisper of air struck my cheek and I turned to see the guard standing beside me.
“Is this your favorite painting here?” he asked.
My father thought sideways. It happens. Probably stemmed from the shrapnel imbedded in his head at a hillside in Italy.
C.S. Lewis writes in his essay on Historicism, ‘pre-historic poetry has perished because words before writing are winged.’ The oral tradition of storytelling is in hibernation. Sitting on the porch watching the fireflies’ nightly dance creates time for reflection. Today, who has time to sit quietly and listen to the family lore dished up with…
And above all these things put on love, Which binds everything together In perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14 ESV Hanging on our bedroom wall is our advent calendar. Tucked in pockets are beautiful words of God’s love. The first folded paper has a quote from Robert Browning. “How do I love thee? Let me count the…
The yeasty scent of bread fresh from the oven fills my daughter’s kitchen. It turns my thoughts back to 2012 when my granddaughter Anneliese and I baked biscuits but had to make sour milk with vinegar. We watched bubbles rise and expand, and marveled as they created foam on the surface of the liquid. Five-year-old…
The Earth is the Lord’s, And the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. Psalm 24:1&2 A Psalm of David. The sirens’ call of the ocean began when I was a toddler seeing the Pacific for the first time.…