Wednesday Greetings, Wednesday!It's the middle of the week.  For me, there are two important things about Wednesday.1.  Creating a Wednesday Message... which isn't always easy.  I don't always feel inspired, so don't always feel inspiring.  It can be a challenge coming up...

Wednesday Greetings, The Monsoons have returned to Tucson.  The skies fill with billowing clouds, the sounds of thunder rumble across the airwaves, and the rains fall from above floating the desert with the thirst-quenching waters so desperately needed.  The storms are powerful and...

Wednesday Greetings,   "I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they've been through."   Karen SalmansohnThat's not easy, especially when the storms keep coming, especially when the storm is a Category 5 hurricane, or an E10 Tornado, or .... just plain...

Wednesday Greetings, As the sun rises on the window in my front living room (it faces east), I notice a bunch of handprints on the window.  I didn't put them there.  I'm sure my wife didn't put them there.  Oh yeah, the grandkids were here.....I remember being a parent of young...

Wednesday Greetings, God, we come before you in prayer today.  Thank you for the gift of free will.  Thank you for trusting us enough to show us the way, but also to allow us to choose or not choose, to follow or to wander.But please, God, don't let us wander far, don't let us not...

Wednesday Greetings,   Juneteenth, June 19th, honors a time when people who were enslaved in our country were told that they had been freed nearly two years prior.First, seriously.... in this country we intentionally enslaved people.  Think about that.. the land of the free?Second...

Wednesday Greetings,   This showed up as my morning devotion, from my daily calendar by Sarah Young, "Jesus Calling."  What a wonderful thing to imagine the Lord saying to any of us... May it be a reminder of the choice we have to trust in the Lord and see every part of our...

Wednesday Greetings "he will wipe away every tear from their eyes."Revelation 21:4I was always told there was no more crying in heaven...but I cry when I'm happy, not just when sad... So, I think what the revelation teaches us is that in the next life, we will know God's closeness so much that...

Wednesday Greetings,   "Be still and know that I am God!"   Psalm 46This wonderful psalm was highlighted last Sunday in worship.  It's a reminder to us that in the midst of all the troubles we face, God is with us.  In the midst of the chaos, God is with us.And it's...

Wednesday Greetings, "There is no Saint without a past,No Sinner without a future."St. AugustineAmen to that, right?  Every one of us is a mixture of saint and sinner.  The prayer is that the balance leans toward saint.... more and more every day of our lives as we journey onward.And...