Here’s to a new year, stretched out before us like an open landscape, the topography untouched, like a new journal waiting to be filled. This is just one exhilarating aspect for me about cross-country skiing: setting out across a wide-open vista where you can almost see the stillness lay across a snowy landscape.
Read MoreCultivating our hearts could look like breaking up the hard places that hinder our spiritual growth such as unforgiveness, bitterness and selfishness. This involves a lot of human effort and divine grace. Like a garden, cultivating our hearts means we need to pick the negative weeds out and nurture positive qualities.
Read MoreLord, we pray for the wedding coming up, for good health for all,
Pleasant weather, safety, and your presence in every part of the church and hall.
We pray for strength of body, heart, and mind for the elderly,
Joy and gladness for those who plan, arrange, and execute,
For wisdom, guidance, and your watchful eye over all,
