Wednesday Greetings, Shalom.The Hebrew word, Shalom, means many things. These days it's a greeting: a hello or goodbye, much like Aloha. But Shalom means something even more.Biblical shalom is peace that comes from a sense of wholeness.It's beautiful, really. ...
Wednesday Greetings, Lamentations 3:22-23 - The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning...Lamentations is a wonderful Old Testament book, full of pain and sorrow (hence the name), and yet, in the midst, the writer...
Wednesday Greetings, Have you ever had one of those days when the only prayer you want to pray .... is a bad prayer? I mean, a mean prayer.... Like you're mad... at the world, at God, at everything.... and the only prayer is a mean-spirited, mad prayer?Pray...
Wednesday Greetings, Sometimes we think a "spiritual" experience is something really grand and glorious, a "MountainTop" experience in our lives. We think they happen at retreats, in worship, at an amazing sunset.But spiritual experiences can be very ordinary and happen in the...
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...