As is true in most communities across the nation, our town was built around crossroads connecting north and south with east and west. Certainly the landscape has changed from its early founding, as historic pictures reveal. Days of dirt roads, horse-drawn wagons and simple stores where folks came for goods to supplement their agricultural […]
Read MoreLeashed to the Master
Walks are among his favorite things. Posing the question and rattling the keys is all it takes to get an energetic and enthusiastic response from my little dog. He’ll beat me to the door, the gate and the car in anticipation of what is to come, eagerly watching out the window for his first glimpse […]
Read MoreSeeing the Cross
The whisper of God can come to us in unexpected moments of ordinary living. That still, small voice that touches the soul with His inaudible breath. I never cease to be amazed by those times. I had been a buyer for a gift shop and occasionally brought home catalogs to review them in the evening […]
Read MoreThe Cup
The painting captivated me the moment I laid eyes on it that spring day over forty years ago. It was the central focus in the window of a small art gallery; a testimony without words ~ quiet, powerful and passionate. It was scripture on canvass; Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. There was something about […]
Read MoreLonging to Be Heard
Every step was an effort, every attempt to grasp the smallest object a struggle and every desire to form words a desperate cry. The simplest movements and conversation of the able-bodied are monumental tasks for those born with cerebral palsy. One such person graced my path some time ago and I will never forget him. […]
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