by debracelovsky | Jul 26, 2023 | Family Life, Random Thinkings, Travel
(Photo: Sonoma Coast near Bodega Bay, CA) Let’s see. In the weeks since my last post, my husband and I have: been to Lithuania to oversee a wonderful multinational church while our pastor friends made a trip to the U.S. (check out my Facebook page for photos and...
by debracelovsky | May 29, 2023 | Liberty
It is springtime in 1974 and the team is traveling from our headquarters in Kaiserslautern, West Germany to minister in Belgium. We are part of a year-long pilot missions program, traveling to churches and American military bases around western Europe. This trip takes...
by debracelovsky | May 26, 2023 | Into the Vineyard, Word
John 15:4: Abide in Me, and I in you. Springtime in Sonoma Country means bud-break, that time of the year when thousands of acres of vines awaken from their long winter’s nap, and leaves begin bursting from the trunks. You can practically hear life surging...
by debracelovsky | May 13, 2023 | Moms, Word
I Samuel 2 and Luke 1 Life began by waking up and loving my mother’s face. George Eliot, writer Her story is familiar, a woman living at the end of the era of the judges, in a polygamous marriage. Allow me to note that, although polygamy was not expressly...
by debracelovsky | May 1, 2023 | Family Life, One Year Bible
Children do not inherit their father’s religion by natural succession. They must be trained in it. Lord Arthur Hervey The challenge, of course, is in the doing. Which brings us to a strange book about a period of time that’s been called “the dim...
