by Christine Sine This year I am determined to start off on the right foot and for that rather selfish reason chose Starting the 2020s on the Right Foot as…
By Lynne Baab– “Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness.”—Desmond Tutu I want to tell you about my decade-long journey of trying to…
By Catherine Lawton — Ah, Christmas! Bright lights, hustle and bustle, joyous music and celebrations…. Yet, hidden behind all the glitter, many people feel the pangs of sadness and loneliness…
By Barbie Perks — Close on 20 years ago, I came across the Blue Christmas concept in a Methodist Women’s magazine that was being published in South Africa. The idea…
By Hilary Horn — As Christmas approaches and our advent season has arrived, one word that has been sticking out to me in particular is the word hope. I love this…
by Christine Sine Vulnerable is the second word in my Advent garden. When I wrote it I was thinking about Mary’s vulnerability – powerless and open to attack. I was…
By Lilly Lewin The gospel passage from the Lectionary a couple of weeks ago was LUKE 13:10-17. We journaled from it at thinplaceNASHVILLE, and I have been “chewing on it”…
by Christine Sine It’s Holy Week. Jesus is getting ready – not for the cross but for resurrection. “For the joy that was set before him” he willing planted the…
by Christine Sine Each year at this time I write myself a new prayer for the new year. Yesterday I read through my prayer for 2018 Let newness emerge and realized…
By Lilly Lewin This week we light the first candle in our Advent wreaths. The first candle is known as the HOPE candle or the PROPHET Candle depending upon what…
