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  • Grief Poem - Old Farmhouse

    Updated May 1, 2020

    “I heard from Gram; can I tell you?” my friend grinned down at me. Then chuckling, she took a seat and grabbed a cup of tea. “They lived awhile in old Farmhouse some miles way north of town. I was their guest some years way back, that house is now torn down. T’was a cottage with nice front porch, a fireplace of brick. It warmed us up on a cold day — Gramps let me add a stick! Their barn was near, horses “lived” there, pasture for them and cows. Gramps showed me how to milk one time; I stayed AWAY from sows! Back to the h...

  • Hello, God. It's me, Mara.

    Updated May 1, 2020

    You know, Lord, everyone knows that You answer prayers, but few realize that You are apt to give one of three answers. We all expect Your answer to be a resounding “Yes!” — and preferable answered yesterday. We take You for granted, merrily going on with our lives, thinking things will forever go our way. We sometimes chose not to hear Your “No.” Then we sulk and pout instead of searching out where we asked awry. We fail to discover Your perfect will for us. When Your answer is “Wait,” we’re like that crawling baby h...

  • Pastor's Corner: Bestowing and revealing gifts during pandemic

    Updated May 1, 2020

    In the time of the coronavirus … That sounds like the beginning phrase and or the working title of some epic novel being written about this unique point in human history. Based on the roughly 114 million results that phrase in quotation marks generates in 0.76 seconds on Google, it may be a cliche that’s already too late for some aspiring bestseller to stake claim upon. I, for one, won’t compete. This has been touted as a time to journal, to record and document what you were doing, thinking and feeling during a time that...