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Today is the Autumnal Equinox… Happy first day of Fall! For those of us who live in Pennsylvania, today will be another day of heavy rain and the eventual flooding, which has been plaquing the neighborhood for a couple of days. My basement is sound, but my roof is another matter. You see, my roof…
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In currently working through a bible study with women in the Washington County Correctional Facility, I asked God to show us something special, and he did. The study is entitled “Breaking Free-The Stories, The Journey”,(updated version Beth Moore 2009). On Day four of Week 2, God gave me a word for us.  This week the…
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Today is September 11th, 2026. It is twenty-five years after that horribly awful day. As I look at all the faces who perished that day, I am very sad. But I also confess that I am lividly angry… let me digress for a moment Years before, in 1997, I was stationed in the Navy overseas.…
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Today we commemorate the Holy Innocents. We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through…
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This week , the 4th week of Advent centers on Love. God’s Love for us through the advent of Jesus Christ, Y’eshua, Isa al Masih, is the act by which our lives and this world can be transformed to something new, lovely, joyous and whole.  December 7th this year, would have been my brothers’ 66th…
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There is nothing better than good news! It does not matter how it comes, snail mail, telephone, face to face, television, text or even instant messaging… we love good news. Better still, is getting good news when it’s unexpected. We love surprises even more; if it is good news, that is. Take for example, the…
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Advent 2025 Week 2 This week, week 2, of Advent  we light the candle of peace. In honor of this week, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee, and sleepily staring out our window at the misty meadow engulfed in fogginess, I noticed a dove. A dove! He sat in a nearby tree…
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Advent 2025: Week One, Day 7 We frequently pray for God’s Kingdom to come. We even say it over and over in worship. “Come Lord Jesus, Messiah, Come…” as we should. But isn’t it odd that if this is our desire, our call, our hope, why do we struggle with actually living out these words…
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During the season of Advent, many of us find ourselves searching, perhaps; longing, I suppose; or better yet, waiting for the presence of Christ to be revealed in a deeper, more meaningful way. If you find yourself awakened to an insatiable desire to worship the living God in spirit and truth, this Anthology was written…
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     Today, November 30, 2025 is the first day of Advent and we light the candle of Hope. But let me go back to a place in which I was imagining a future that was bright and good and affirming for all people. I hoped that goodness and love would lift us to a new…
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