O By The Way

This past Tuesday evening, our church hosted a Candidates Forum when eight of the nine candidates for our local city council came to meet the people of the community and share ideas.  The one that didnt come, the current mayor, probably didnt figure he should take the time.  Too bad, because it was the last [...]

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Relationships, if they get very close, are often messy.  That’s just the nature of close encounters in this life, anyhow.  What made me think about this was something that happened with me and my granddaughter, Lena, just the other day.  It was morning, her best time, just after eating breakfast, and I was playing a [...]

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Today we prayed.  Several times dring the year our church has made the decision to have worship centered around prayer for one another and for those situations which burden us.  And each time, God works in amazing ways in the lives of our people in these prayer celebrations.  Today, it happened again….It is uncanny! We make [...]

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It seems as we get older, life accelerates.  Its like kicking into a faster gear and things start flying by.  But one thing is certain, so much is different.  I think of what Dorothy says to her beloved Toto in the Wizard of Oz, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!”  I think [...]

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Hope is something all of us live for, something that drives us each day.  Someone once said the essentials to happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  “You gotta have hope,” they sing.  Whether it is the little stuff that gets me out of bed in the morning or [...]

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