Nature Note

Forty-seven turkeys marched through our backyard early this morning, heading east. The wild turkey is non-migratory, although it does make seasonal shifts, changing its range according to availability of food and snow depth. These ladies were on the move. No tom in sight. No sexual harassment.

Love Your Neighbor

Many people conclude (and I have been guilty of this) that people are poor through some fault of their own. This faulty reasoning makes it easy to shut our hearts and hands against them. Even in the best of times under the most enlightened laws, the uncertainties of life and the variations among people can result in poverty. This Advent season I'm asking myself: Who are the poor in my community? How can they be helped? How can they experience our community's compassionate love, gain hope for their future, and receive God's grace?

Advent 2017

Let us pursue the things [and Christmas gifts] which make for peace and the building up of one another. - Romans 14:19 (NASB)