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I lived with my grandmother for a short time during my early teens. Living with her, I learned the value and the pleasure that came from hard work, perseverance, and a job well done.  Scrubbing the kitchen floor, hanging the laundry on the clothesline or making a pie crust was not drudgery nor an obligation…

Grandma and Mom influenced my passion for reading. Neither of them read books, but both of them read the newspaper. Grandma spread the newspaper pages out on either the dining room or kitchen table. Then, she’d scoot her chair in close, and lean forward. She said that the newspaper kept her informed of the “crooks…

Faith is a mystery. We experience it, and yet do not fully understand the experience of our faith. Faith transcends our senses. We cannot taste, touch, see, smell or hear faith, yet we know that our encounters with faith alter our lives in wonderful ways.  Planting a Seed At one point, when Jesus walked this…

Belonging gives us the sense of membership, security, and a common bond, while estrangement gives us the sense of disconnectedness, lostness and loneliness. We are all created with the capacity to know when we belong which means we also know how it feels to not belong.         Tick Tock the Game is Locked Since we often…