On Weeping With Hope

This week I had what was possibly the hardest day of my adult life, and quite certainly of some close to me.  I am not talking about hard as in I lost the keys, then the dog threw up as I was headed out the door and then I accidentally deleted important information on the [...]

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Joachim Neander

(St. Martin’s church of Bremen, Germany)
I love traditional hymns.  Sure, I enjoy the praise songs and more contemporary music styles too, but I would have to say my deepest affections are for the grand old hymns I grew up with.  Today in church we sang one of my favorites, “Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty,” [...]

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The Name Game

Yesterday my sister and her children, five of my precious nieces and nephews, came over to visit.  We were all sitting around the table eating when my sister and I started brainstorming baby names.  At my last doctor’s appointment, they revised my due date to December 25th.  (We think that is so very appropriate by [...]

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I Need Courage Dorothy!

The word courage almost always evokes for me the mental picture of the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz.  My recollection of the whole thing is actually pretty foggy, but the characters really stuck.  I remember that he was so ashamed of himself, a lion without courage who could barely muster enough to go after [...]

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