August 21, 2025

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...

August 7, 2025

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...

July 24, 2025

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...

July 10, 2025

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...

June 12, 2025

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

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...