Month: November 2022

“Be glad in the Lord always! Again I say, be glad! Let your gentleness show in your treatment of all people. The Lord is near. Don’t be anxious about anything; rather, bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers and petitions, along with giving thanks. Then the peace of God that exceeds […]

Dearest Community, Have you ever put your phone in the fridge and tried to put the gallon of milk back on the phone cradle? I don’t recall doing that, but I have done similar things with other objects. My mind is on something else. I’m tired. Maybe I’m distracted. I seem to recall this sort […]

Dearest Community, My Grandmother always talked about Armistice Day. I don’t ever recall her speaking of the day as Veterans Day. I can still hear her reciting “the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” peace was reached. I think the day, for her, had more to do with the end of […]

Dearest Community, This week we received a package in the mail. We curiously opened it, wondering what it could be. Three square nails on a nice backing, with a note on the backside saying, “Square nails from Ferndale Methodist Church 1884” and a nice card. The card explained that in the process of going through […]