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 | 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 | Feb 13, 2023 | One Year Bible, Random Thinkings
OYB Exodus 28, 31, 35 and 36 The very impulse to create is divine. Although we may agree, those impulses are often assigned the status of hobby. Should they be? In her little book, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, writer Madeleine L’Engle speaks...
by debracelovsky | Mar 15, 2021 | Family Life, Random Thinkings
Have you ever walked through an elderly care facility? Have you wondered about the lives of those men and women? Wondered what regrets they might have? Australian Bronnie Ware worked in palliative care for many years and she did ask. Five things kept surfacing in her...
by debracelovsky | Oct 5, 2020 | Random Thinkings, Word
Dave Ramsey, in his first-rate, 9-week course, Financial Peace University, has a great little exercise at the end of each session. It’s called the One Minute Takeaway. A large 1-minute clock appears on the screen. As it ticks down, participants are asked to...
