by debracelovsky | Mar 8, 2024 | One Year Bible, Word
I can tell you from continuing experience that we never stop learning things about ourselves. The work of Christ illuminates that self-willed inner us and asks—again and again—what we intend to do about it. Case in point. I was checking out several sites for an...
by debracelovsky | Feb 12, 2024 | Valentine's Day
Due to the trepidatious occurrence of Lent again commencing on Valentine’s Day, I have—again— decided to make a different kind of Lenten offering. Rather than give up sugar, an obvious choice year to year with my proclivities, or chocolate, which I’ve...
by debracelovsky | Feb 3, 2024 | New Year, Travel, Valentine's Day
Never, in all the years we’ve traveled, have I been so aware of people as on a recent trip Down Under. Not that there are a lot of people in Australia. As of June 2023, the population was 26,638,544. As of June 2023, my home state of California had a population...
by debracelovsky | Dec 24, 2023 | Christmas, Word
He was a contemporary of the great Isaiah, a peasant whose work is a mere seven chapters. Micah’s writings have been described as rugged, but clear and intelligible. And it is unlikely that we will experience any Christmastime without hearing or quoting from his...
by debracelovsky | Dec 4, 2023 | Christmas
The darkness seems absolute. Men before us have forgotten that it hides the morning star. Irwin Edman, Professor of Philosophy In the home we built four years ago, our study faces due east toward the southern end of the Mayacamas Mountains, an ancient volcanic range...
