Category Archives: On my mind

Meal Blessing

Meal Blessing
Do you pray before a meal? What do you say? Many of us were taught a specific prayer as a child that goes through our head, if not our mouth, as we sit down to eat. The prayer usually has some form of blessing the meal. But, as RVL has said, “what’s wrong with the…
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Join us!

Christmas is over and the New Year approaches. We find ourselves surrounded with year-in-review lists – biggest news headlines, blockbuster movies, celebrity passings and remembrances. Especially fun are the lists for predictions in the New Year and a look back to the prediction results of the prior year. As I ponder 2014, I see the…
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Happy Holidays?

Happy Holidays?
I look forward to the holidays, a time that I gather with friends and family for festive meals and a celebration of God’s goodness. We enjoy our time together, sharing the spread that my mom has typically put together (and an obligatory walk before our pie). No, it's not perfect. I’ve brought my own angst and…
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For you

For you
“The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you.” Deuteronomy 14:8 For you. Those two little words add tension. There are instructions in Torah that set the Jewish people apart from their neighbors. They dress differently, eat differently, and worship differently. Is a pig inherently bad? I…
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