Graduation Time

Dear Spiritual Family, It is May and a time when millions of students will be graduating. Mary just finished baking cookies for our neighbor, Wilson, who will be graduating from high school in a few days. Our twelve-year-old grandson will graduate in a few days to...

Happy Mother’s Day

Dear Spiritual Family, Happy Mother’s Day! How perfect that we celebrate mothers on this day, an opportunity to honor their gifts, seen and unseen, to humanity. In our video, we shared our appreciation for the Holy Spirit and compared that nurturing presence to that...

Making Room for Happiness

Dear Spiritual Family, If you wanted to give yourself a grade on how happy you are – most of the time, what would that grade be? No judgment here, just a willingness to provide an honest answer.  When I asked myself that question recently, I wasn’t entirely pleased...

Spiritual Optimism

Dear Spiritual Family, I (Rev. Steve) have almost always considered myself to be an optimist. That bent has served me well over these past seventy-five years. Yes, even as an infant, I saw my milk bottle as half-full as opposed to half-empty. 😊 There have certainly...