by debracelovsky | Mar 2, 2021 | Lent/Easter
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become...
by debracelovsky | Feb 23, 2021 | Into the Vineyard, Lent/Easter
The vinedresser is never nearer the canes than when he is pruning them. David Jeremiah, Christian author Here in Wine Country, with harvest long past, and having shed their leaves, the Crazy Auntie-looking grapevine canes are being meticulously removed. In his...
by debracelovsky | Feb 15, 2021 | Lent/Easter
As I was preparing this week’s post on the approach of Lent 2021 (Wednesday, February 17 – Saturday, April 3), I recalled this one from the past. It is worth sharing again, with a few edits. Part Two, next week, will include a recent, nerve-wracking...
by debracelovsky | Jan 18, 2021 | Into the Vineyard
The cuts made in the bare, brown canes that stand in a tangled arch above each vine will determine, more than anything else, how much crop and of what quality will grow and, God willing, become wine on some warm afternoon next autumnJoseph Novitski, A Vineyard Year...
by debracelovsky | Jan 5, 2021 | Prayer, Word
Amid all this lived this sturdy little woman, keeping her lamp alight so that New York Harbor might be safe for ships that pass in the night.Obituary, Kate Walker, New York Evening Post, February 5, 1931 In New York Harbor, between Staten Island and the Statue of...
