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SIGN, SYMBOL, AND SIGNIFICANCE: ADVENT
A new church year has begun! It is the season of ADVENT. Many Christians and churches misunderstand what Advent is all about and,...
Dec 4, 20232 min read


Signs, Symbols, and Significance: End of Ordinary Time
The end of the church year is now completed with Sunday, November 26th, as Christ the King Sunday. We seem to be seeing prophecy unfold...
Nov 21, 20232 min read


Signs, Symbols, and Significance: Ordinary Time – Extraordinary times
Dear Friends, On October 7, 2023, Israelis awoke expecting to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, a day of rejoicing and...
Oct 28, 20232 min read


Signs, Symbols, and Significance Ordinary Time – Simhat Torah
Simhat Torah is the celebration of the completion of reading through the Torah this past year. It is a most joyful celebration that falls...
Oct 9, 20233 min read


Signs, Symbols, and Significance Ordinary Time – The Fall Feasts
I’ve been thinking about when the millennium changed. It was a really big deal! There was lots of controversy about what would happen to...
Sep 11, 20232 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE: Ordinary Time - Dangerous times?
What do we do when storms happen, either anticipated or when we are blind-sided? Where do we turn?
Aug 28, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS AND SIGNIFICANCEOrdinary Time – final preparations
My Facebook friends have been posting First Day of School pictures. In August? Oh my! It seems that in the last couple of weeks, families...
Aug 14, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE: Ordinary Time – time for preparation
Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty little maids in a row. Sometimes...
Jul 24, 20235 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS AND SIGNIFICANCE, Ordinary Time – time for growth
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. Gen 2:9a The whole...
Jul 3, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE- BONUS! On Becoming A Farmer
Several months ago, I saw a post on Facebook that included a picture of a beautiful ear of corn. It was much more colorful than the...
Jun 21, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE, Ordinary Time Musings
The past few weeks have flown by and been so busy! How about you? Feel like ‘Where did the time go’? I certainly found myself caught up...
Jun 19, 20232 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE- Eastertide, Counting the Omer part 3
Diverting and Pivoting “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” How many times have you heard this? A few days after writing my last...
May 22, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE- Eastertide and the Ascension
…” Then He leads them out to Bethany. He lifts up His hands and blesses them, and at that moment, with His hands raised in blessing, he...
May 19, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE- Eastertide, Counting the Omer part 2, Waiting and Anticipating
Ba ck in February, I wrote about planting a new rose bush. After planting it upside down and digging it up and planting it right side up,...
May 5, 20233 min read


SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE: Eastertide – Counting the Omer
It is the season of Eastertide on the Christian church calendar. Eastertide is the season of 50 days that leads to Pentecost. So why would t
Apr 15, 20233 min read


SIGN, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE: Lent, Holy Week, Passover
T he past few weeks seem to have flown by! I was challenged to read Pilgrim’s Progress so I have been working my way through a modern...
Apr 3, 20233 min read


SIGN, SYMBOLS, AND SIGNIFICANCE- Lent and Purim
How is your Lenten season going? Even if you have had a difficult time getting started it’s not too late! In my last blog, I mentioned...
Mar 6, 20234 min read


SIGN, SYMBOL, AND SIGNIFICANCE - Ash Wednesday and Lent
Ash Wednesday is being recovered in many Protestant churches today. The significance of the ashes and the cross are historical. “In the...
Feb 21, 20233 min read


SIGN, SYMBOL, AND SIGNIFICANCE - Roses
Every place we have lived, with one exception, I have had a rose garden. The most roses I have ever had was over 100! I now have only 4....
Feb 16, 20234 min read


SIGN, SYMBOL, AND SIGNIFICANCE - Holocaust Remembrance Day
Pray with me today in honor of the 6 million Jews killed during WWII. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Jan 27, 20231 min read
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