by debracelovsky | Jan 17, 2025 | New Year, Travel
Most of us know that one of the trickiest things about preparing for a long trip is deciding—out of all your many possessions—what to take with you. You know the universal instruction: On the bed, lay out all the clothes you intend to pack, along with all the money....
by debracelovsky | Dec 13, 2024 | Christmas
Recently, I was rereading this post from December of 2020, the first of those terrible covid years, and remembering how very much we needed this message in that season. Fact is, we need it in every season. I was thinking about how interesting it is that Christmas...
by debracelovsky | Nov 27, 2024 | Thanksgiving
To prepare for our nation’s 250th anniversary, I have been reading Benson Bobrick’s “Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution.” At 495 pages, it’s taking awhile to finish—and it is not a book to hurry through. Maybe...
by debracelovsky | Nov 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Tertullian, 2nd century Not long before Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Gospel of Matthew (20:20-23) records a conversation between Jesus and Salome, the mother James and John. Jesus had recently...
by debracelovsky | Sep 9, 2024 | Summer
God does what seems best to him, which is, therefore, best. George Rawlinson, British scholar and Christian theologian It was going to be a wonderful summer, the kind of summer we dream about in the middle of February—sunshine, grandkids in the pool all afternoon,...
