Grace

Are We There Yet?

Early one sultry Saturday morning in August, when I was ten years old, my mom and dad packed up my brother and me in the car, and we set off from our home in River Edge, NJ for Lake Hopatcong, which sits about forty miles west of River Edge, mostly along and a little...

Timeless Times

We started losing light on June 21 (the Summer Solstice) as we began moving towards December 21 (the Winter Solstice). Fewer hours of daylight will make it seem as though we have less time to do things, to accomplish what we must. Some of us will turn, in this time of shortened daylight, from...

Sounding Out the Words

Year C Isaiah 66:10-14 Psalm 66:1-8 Galatians 6:7-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 May the words of my mouth O God…   speak your truth… One of the things my parents taught my brother and me…  was how to accept a gift graciously…  without feeling obligated to offer a different gift in return…  to even the score as it were…  and...