Aug 21, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Sudie Blanchard Lord, you provide the strong warp threads of our lives– Family, friends, love, trust…anchors that support us. Each day, we weave the varied weft threads… Rainbows of color and texture: Shades of gold and red–bright colors of joy and gladness...
Aug 7, 2025 | Reflections
Image:Barb Kautz About Teenagers, With and Without Feathers In the early spring a pair of birds built a nest in an old gray, bike helmet hanging on the wall of our garage. Next to it hangs another bike helmet, this one with a pink visor, too old, and too...
Jul 24, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer Moonlight Prayer Never forget: There is light in the darkness. There is sun after rain. There is morning after night. God will not let the darkness last. God’s rainbow promises the rain will stop. God’s hand spins dusk into the dawn. But...
Jul 10, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Kathryn Yingst A Prayer For Hunt, Texas Raise your voices Through the trees Around each curve Of limbs Of water That every space Is found Is filled With presence Persistent Until each Mystic child Is reunited Into the arms Of her beloveds Though mothers Wear...
Jun 10, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Waiting Far below the canopy beneath the understory the fern waits Liquid blue reflections hint enigmatically at the bright sky above Hidden lakes of lily-of-the-valley scent the heavy shadows that weave around it ...
May 15, 2025 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Spring By the time you read this, the forsythia will be gone. The bushes will still be there, of course, but the brilliant yellow blossoms will be spent. New England springs are much anticipated, much loved, much photographed, and to my...