by debracelovsky | Mar 29, 2025 | Lent/Easter
While I breathe, I hope. Cicero Jesus has left Galilee for the last time in his earthly ministry. Two-thirds of his ministry has taken place in this region and its surroundings. He was raised in one of its many small towns, brought up in a loving family, learned the...
by debracelovsky | Mar 17, 2025 | Lent/Easter
He sat on a stool in front of his low mud brick house in the cool air of early morning. Chickens chattered as they scratched in the dust of a neighbor’s yard, having been summoned before dawn by the flock’s loud and insistent rooster. A young goat bleated....
by debracelovsky | Mar 4, 2025 | Lent/Easter
He said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest (Mark 6:31b NIV). Come to me . . . and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28 CSB). “We want,” quipped C.S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, “not so much a father in...
by debracelovsky | Feb 14, 2025 | Valentine's Day
A line from this movie flashed into my mind recently as I was thinking about the approach of Valentine’s Day, and I decided to repost this memory from the archives. May the only things we are measuring and counting out are the rich blessings of love and our...
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....
