Yesterday was a glorious day. It’s all relative, of course, but following this past winter with its Beethoven-style final snowfalls--one more of which may still come tonight--compared to that, it was. The sun was beautiful; there were a few drops of rain, so no seedling would wither; the children dug holes in the yard and examined the worms, grubs and centipedes they found within. Every once in a while, an eddy of a breeze would pick up last fall’s leaves and swirl them ab

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. ~Proverbs 16:18,19. The other day, I paged through a book entitled “Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community,” by Dr. Amanda Kemp. In her introduction, the first thing she asks is: “Risk saying the wrong thing.” She writes: Recently, I led a training where folks listed th