Faith Is Like Swaddling Cloths
Welcome to Connection Messenger* and today’s guest blogger, Lisa Mikitarian, who writes beautiful and compelling articles about living out her …
If God Values Us, Why Can’t We Value Ourselves?
How is God calling you? I’ve just returned from a 3-1/2 day business retreat at the beautiful Inn at Serenbe about 25 miles southwest of …
Life Is Short: A Benediction
The following is a benediction, or blessing, given at the closing Eucharist of the 2010 convention of the Diocese of Maine, and based on the words …
Courage To Face Winter
Winter can be a challenging season of Nature, but in the darkness of an emotional or spiritual winter period of our lives, where do we turn for …
Are We Thinking Too Small For God?
“We are half-hearted creatures” “It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted …
Book Review: Keep Your Love On! by Danny Silk
Keep your love on! Connection, Communication and Boundaries Written by Danny SilkReviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell I was expecting this to be a …
Love, Fear, Wisdom, And The Exquisite Beauty Of The World Around You
This week has been crazy, and I’m determined to be kinder to myself when I don’t get everything done I want to do. I haven’t …
Compassion: So Much More Than Pity
The word won’t go away The word compassion has been coming often to my mind lately…the kind of niggling, repetitive showing up of a …
7 Spiritual Growth Lessons Learned From My Grapevines
Grapes at Cave Ridge Vineyard photographed by Rod Shepherd and used with permission For years, we had lush and lovely grapevines growing along …