This Is Life

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Free to Make a Difference

Happy days as we prepare for Memorial Day Weekend. Freedom cost so many, so much. As I look at my own relatives, I’m thankful.  My Great (x6ish) Grandfather Captain William Miller moved to the colonies from Scotland and was in the Revolutionary War. He participated in campaigns in Northern VA., part of which is now West VA. And in PA. where he was severely wounded by Indians near Ft. Pitt which caused his death late that year, 1777, in Goochland...

Storm watching

Some thoughts from your pastor and friend on this stormy day. It can be unsettling to see a front move through (not from the map but by looking at the sky) I am reminded that nature is powerful.  It is more powerful than myself.  It is more powerful than any of us.  Even together we cannot contain it, slow it, halt it or change it.  All we can do is watch it unfold and seek a safe shelter from the...

I wanted to go there but I ended up here!

I wanted to go there but I ended up here!  Now how did that happen?  Now what?!? Year after year people miss their goals.  They miss that which they were aiming.  Over two decades in a marriage and suddenly it is over.  Years invested in a career only to find out it didn’t achieve for them what they hoped.  Children raised and walking away from faith.  Life was busy and productive but now one is faced with life changing addiction....