by Karen Treat | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Image
There is beauty in the “in between”. The time when the sky is black, and stars begin to sparkle. When the ice begins to melt, and the waters open. The song of the bird and the sunlight fully illuminated. The “in between” can be waiting, anticipating, and...
by Kay Vander Vort | Dec 21, 2021 | Featured Image
My partner of the last 20 years entered memory care last April. Don had been in assisted living in a senior apartment. The move to memory care was triggered by his night-wandering, a situation that can’t be tolerated in a senior community.It necessitated a sudden...
by Karen Wight Hoogheem | Dec 21, 2021 | Featured Image
During the season of Advent, I tried a new spiritual practice. The short days of late fall/early winter seemed like an invitation to go for an evening walk as often as possible. Here are some of the gifts I experienced: The evening walk provided an experience of...
by Lindsay McGlynn | Dec 17, 2021 | Featured Image
We’re nearing the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. I didn’t pay much attention to this moment in the year until the holiday season became complicated in my life. Prior to that, it was all anticipation and festivity. But in the past several years, the...
by Linda Cherek | Dec 8, 2021 | Featured Image
In the last few days I have been decorating our tree and house to make it festive and exciting for our grandchildren with lots of Santa Bears, mangers that can be explored and played with, stockings hung on the mantle and placing all the angel ornaments on our special...
by Karen Treat | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured Image
“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” John 1:5 I wake in the morning before the sun begins her entrance. We could say I wake before dawn. “Dawn”. What a great word to describe this experience. The...
