by Jim Farfaglia Yesterday, in the middle of the lake, they bobbed over gentle ripples, riding atop reflections on the last day of the year. Everybody was honking at once, gossiping about the year’s triumphs, of love gone north or south, of those who took their final flight… Today, as dawn breaks,(…)
by Pastor David Grey “We know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God…He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.” — 1 John 5:20 Well, our Christmas celebrations are over (for those of us who celebrate Christmas and(…)
by Leon Archer It’s amazing how another year has flown; here we are past Christmas with New Year’s celebrations a couple days away, and to me at least, it hardly seems possible. It has been a good year with great times spent with family, no really bad things happening to any of us, and Sweet(…)
by Jim Farfaglia The days of our year have been collected, each placed in a sack we have labeled 2012. This bag has grown fat – filled with April’s blossoms, August’s dog days, October’s tumble-leaves. Now, near the year’s end, time slows to a standstill, the sack offering one last chance to remember and reflect…(…)
by Roy Hodge It has turned out that one of my jobs around the house is keeping everything neat during the day. My duties usually consist of doing a few dishes a couple of times a day and keeping clutter to a minimum, which I usually interpret as being able to walk around the house(…)
by Pastor David Grey “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” — Colossians 3:13-14 More than 30 times in the New Testament we are told to forgive one another’s trespasses and offenses. But there is one verse in scripture that reveals just(…)
by Jerry Kasperek We used to laugh at my Grandmother and think she was “cute” because she wore hats and gloves and did silly things and was so darn forgetful. Why can’t she get my name right? I’d wonder after she’d gone through the entire list of family names before she’d get to mine. “All(…)
by Leon Archer This is not the article I had planned to write for this week and it’s not one that I enjoy writing. Several people have asked me what I thought about gun control now, after the horrible atrocity at the Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. It’s been hard to answer them, not because(…)
