Lent as Spring Training
Lent is to the Christian life what Spring Training is to baseball. Spring training is a time for getting in shape, practicing basic...
“The Night Is Far Gone; The Day Is At Hand”
The season of Advent is like the days before a major snow storm in New England, which goes something like this. . . “A storm is coming! A...
Moses Went on a Retreats: Why Not You?
While reading the Bible, it always amazes me how I can notice something I never noticed before in a passage I've read countless times...
An Easter Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow: Easter, 2020
It is still cold here at Forest Haven. Though all the snow has melted, a few flakes fell yesterday. Like everyone else, we are observing...
It's Spring, Sort Of
Spring typically conjures up images of robins, flowers and bright yellow forsythia blooms. That's the way spring is supposed to be, at...
Reflections on Christmas Lights & Christmas Music
Tops on the list of what I love most about Christmas are the season's lights and music. Although I am not one to outline our house in...
Advent: Waiting for the Lights to Come on in a Power Outage
Winter has arrived early here in our part of New Hampshire. On the plus side, the final stages of leaf raking and fall clean-up were...
Thanksgiving, In Particular
"Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your many blessings see what God hath done." ("Count Your Blessings," lyrics by...
Easter Is More Than a Happy Ending
We tend to view Easter as the happy end of the story of Jesus, but, when you stop to think about it, it’s really the beginning of another...
Good Friday Meditation: April 14, 2017, Noon to 3pm
It is noon, and I am sitting in the last pew, in the back of the church. I am here because it is Good Friday. I do not have any deep...
