Ray of Sunshine

Today, I am on a plane heading to Israel. Am I excited? More than you could probably know. Was it ever something I wanted to do? Nope –...

Music is a sound; music, I have discovered, is totally sensory (we feel it with our senses). Music cannot be described but rather it is...

We often hear people say that the Jewish nation is the chosen ones. Did you know the Jewish people do not necessarily want to be the...

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the shifting sand. Standing on the edge of the huge ocean the waves lapping the shoreline gently. You...

Sometimes I get confused over my “purpose.” I feel confused over what I am to “do” and what I am to be. I, for one, heard enough...

Much like the ocean, wisdom gets larger as we get older because hopefully we are learning from all of our life lessons. The deep gets...

My oldest son had hip replacement surgery December 21, yes, we know that he is terribly young to have that kind of surgery (34). We got...

Sometimes I feel like one of the fallen. I can identify with the blows of life that hacked at my roots, tore at my trunk and took out...

I had not been at church for weeks, probably since the beginning of December for many reasons. I have no idea what has been preached or...

Driving through the Pine Pass I never get tired of the wonder of the beauty around me. Lakes, rivers, mountains, and plains shroud your...

We often forget because we have plans, datebooks, calendars and schedules that our lives are really not our own. It is when your life...

It was sunny, not perspiring hot – pleasant. There was no wind or trace of a breeze, the water had no ripples or waves as I pushed my...

Have you found it yet? I found it and then I lost it and then I found it again. The Peace that the angels talk about in the Bible: “Glory...

The breaking of the silence. It was a dark time in the history of the Jewish nation, God had not spoken to the people in over 400 years....

December again, it seems like we were here only yesterday and in other ways it seems we have made a long arduous journey between then and...

Clay is a natural substance, a form of hardened dirt that is made up of minute fragment particles of rocks, similar to dust, that are...

The interesting thing about people is that we do not like to acknowledge our weaknesses or rather we leverage our weaknesses and get...

And yet again I find myself here: staring into the majestic glory that is the Rockies. I cannot fully describe what the Rockies do to me...

The making of a pearl: “A natural pearl begins its life inside an oyster's shell when an intruder, such as a grain of sand or bit of...

I was in Vancouver a week or so ago and one of my boys told me he had just eaten blackened waffles. Then I saw black ice cream cones at...