by debracelovsky | Oct 27, 2025 | Travel
I’m in a complicated relationship with my suitcase. Unknown The first time my husband and I flew to Lithuania, our one layover was in Riga, Latvia. Although it would have been fun to have had the time—and energy—after a ten-hour flight, to make a quick trip...
by debracelovsky | Aug 29, 2025 | Family Life, Random Thinkings, Summer
Lately, due in large part to our recent fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration, I’ve been thinking about time, its passage, and the magnificent mysteries that lie beyond this “vale of tears”, as our forbears so quaintly put it. Not long ago I was...
by debracelovsky | Jun 27, 2025 | Family Life, Random Thinkings
Down the road from where I used to live, visible behind large trees and overgrown bushes, sat a small house of nondescript brown. Wood scraps, pieces of old machinery, and piles of rubbish adorned its dilapidation. Rotted fencing surrounded the property in front and...
by debracelovsky | Apr 18, 2025 | Lent/Easter
German theologian, Franz Delitzsch, wrote the following about Isaiah, Chapter 53: It is the most central, the deepest, and the loftiest thing that the Old Testament prophecy, outstripping itself, has ever achieved. I share this version here, as I find it beautifully...
by debracelovsky | Apr 7, 2025 | Lent/Easter
Bethany They have been expecting him, anticipating his arrival for Passover. Martha has readied their home in her usual efficient way. And their friend, Simon, who had been miraculously healed of the dreaded leprosy by the Lord himself during a visit months earlier,...
