April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? – PILGRIMS !!! I know it’s an old joke but when I heard it the other day I just had to smile. At this time of year it seems like I see a lot more smiling going on. Maybe I...

Wow! It seems like just a minute ago when we were wishing one another, ”Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”; now Holy Week and Easter are here. For some of us the “resolutions” we made for New Years are yet to be started and some things that we hoped to...

Sometimes I wonder why the Garden of Gethsemane is included in the Gospels. Frankly, it’s easy to misunderstand. Jesus is struggling, sweating profusely, so torn up inside, so exposed, so human. At first glance, Jesus seems weak, actually asking the Father to help him back out of the plan forged...