Fragrance, aroma, sweet, savor, lingering scents. What comes to mind when you think on these words? A perfume counter and your favorite fragrance? Garden, flower, or candle shop? How about a bakery calling you in from the street to try a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie? All of these can be completely irresistible and alluring …
As most of us enter this week and the weeks to come, we are walking in uncharted territory. Some of us find ourselves suddenly working from home, never before having navigated a home office and what it means to not be able to physically separate our professional and personal lives. Many of you mothers are …
I woke up feeling hopeful this morning. Hopeful is such a strange word to use in a time like this; an even stranger feeling to feel in a time of uncertainty, fear, and chaos. I can’t explain it really, except I feel like all this stripped down way of living is something my soul has …
Your morning starts before the sun wakes up. Maybe you’re lucky enough to get a cup of coffee before racing out the door, kids in toe. After getting them to school, you settle in to start your own work day. Before you know it, it’s 4pm and you start to wonder what’s for dinner… or …
He was teaching in one of the meeting places on the Sabbath. There was a woman present, so twisted and bent over with arthritis that she couldn’t even look up. She had been afflicted with this for eighteen years. When Jesus saw her, he called her over. “Woman, you’re free!” He laid hands on her …
