In honor of National Quitting Day (January 9th), here are five things I learned about reading the Bible in a year, plus a bonus on how you can get started on your own plan. Awareness is the First Step to Success It wasn’t so much a New Year’s Resolution as it was a quest: I was a professing Christian of 50 years, and my Living Water Support System helped me realize that I had never read the Bible from cover to cover. There were chapters, verses, and even books (hello, Revelat

Somewhere in Somerset County Cemeteries, State Parks, and The Endless Pandemic In June of 2020, just when I was about to lose my mind, the government opened things up with enough restrictions to consider renouncing my U.S. citizenship. Armed with family history that I culled from an ancestry website, and photos that I found in my grandfather’s World War I steamer trunk, I would pack the car with juice boxes, peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches, and a sense of humor to let the

May 1984, Scranton, Pennsylvania The cinder-colored snow piles in the high school parking lot are finally beginning to melt, and winter...

Our Vision is to Erase the Lines of Separation that Isolate Those in the Commercial Sex Industry. Just because we haven’t been in the...

The Vision "...Our Bold Vision is to see divorce eradicated from our society!" The Mission "The Marriage Hub seeks to become the leading...

A Little Bit About Love: Maybe not Africa, but Love felt God's calling to reach the "spiritually neglected" early in her Christian walk....

Three Separate Missions with One Common Denominator   “Building Bridges to Transform Communities”   Rebuild: “Harrisburg Community...

The Vision "...to provide a Christian mentor to everyone who wants one." The Mission "Many kids are struggling. They are lost, confused,...

Situated on the 2500 block of North Front Street with a commanding view of the Susquehanna River, Morning Star Pregnancy Services is...

Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was a master at capturing the human condition. The television special "A...

A Wretch Like Me…Once Was Lost.   David, in Psalm 139:4, honored God with these words: " You know every step I will take before my...

The past couple of days I have been thinking a great deal about the inauguration. The hoopla of the press, the expense, the whole thing....

December 31, 2024 I started this blog in the early morning of New Year's Eve Day, thinking about the Gratitude Jar lurking behind my...

Suzie Richey (Han Pun Cho) at Osan Air Base, Korea somtime around 1957-1960 Born during the Japanese occupation in Korea, my...

It was May 2023 when my husband, Dave and I were mulching around the shrubbery at our home when I first felt the “twinge”. With each...

As we sail into the 2024 holiday season, whether it’s to buy a tree stand or haul away a broken appliance, setting priorities is...

This is such an appropriate passage for Christmas time. As we enter into the month of December, now is when we begin to fill up our days...

In the dark, early hours of Christmas Eve 2017, I grabbed my laptop and the largest mug of coffee I could cram in a cupholder and drove...

It was the first not-rainy day in ten that a group of 76 women, mostly connected to Living Water Community Church, gathered for a...

Dear Alaska, It’s been roughly 75 days since I walked out of your life and into the one waiting for me back home. There isn’t a day since...