Thank God!  Easter is finally here!  After forty cloudy and muddy days of Lent, we can rejoice in the hope of new life. Spring has been cool here in Minnesota, so little shoots are just beginning to peek up through the soil, and the new buds on the trees and bushes are just now appearing. …

Prayer Prayer is a very complicated subject, because it is so subjective. It means very different things to each of us and is performed in so many different ways, depending on who we are. As humans, though, we seem to need to connect in some way with the Universal, with that beyond us, but the…

When children are toddlers, 2 or 3 years old, they begin to learn about seasons of the year, fall, winter, spring and summer. Naming our seasons, months and hours gives us stability, as we conceptualize  our time. We need to be able to use these terms to make sense of our lives in time.  The…

Many people celebrate their children’s half birthdays with them, but in our family, beginning when our children were preschoolers, we celebrated the anniversaries of their baptisms. I wanted them to know they were baptized, why they were baptized and to remember what day it was in order to be thankful for it each year.  There…

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