The Messy Process of Being Made Perfect

  In order to make repairs on the dam at one end of the lake on which I live, engineers lowered the water level to twelve feet below the normal height. In a few days, the beautiful and serene pond turned into an almost completely drained mud hole; to my eyes, it resembled pictures of a […]

Guest Blog: I Celebrate Gray Hair

INTRODUCTION: Sandy has been following Jesus since she was 8 years old.  She studied at SUNY Potsdam and attended Koinonia Church (now New Hope Community Church) way back in the 1980’s. She and her husband, Kevin, live in the Rochester area and are parents to three grown children. Sandy serves in Children’s ministry and works […]

I Will Choose to Look Up . . .

After reading and listening to news reports about Irma’s path of destruction in the Caribbean and Florida all day Sunday, I could not get to sleep. My mind would not rest. I got out of bed,  sat down in my recliner, and picked up  All My Days, a beautiful book written by my friend, Ellen Mainville.   […]

Learning to Love Recess

My mother was a very loving and generous Christian woman. She was also a very hard worker. To me it seemed like she worked all of the time. I remember asking her on various occasions, “Mother, don’t you think you need to rest?” Her usual reply was, “I will rest when I get to heaven!” […]