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Much of life consists of going on day after day, without making much visible progress, doing our work as faithfully as we can with no special reward or recognition.—Sue Bender, Plain and Simple As you know, we consider blessed those ...

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.–Proverbs 18:9 To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is ...

Mutual aid should be distinguished from charity, and resources shared in ways that  recognize interdependence with others rather than fostering perpetual dependence of many on a few.—Sue Bender, Plain Living I live and work in a community that seeks to ...

59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of ...

“Then he said to them, ‘my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.’”             Matthew 26:36  One of my favorite scenes from the Gospels is Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is in that moment we ...

 “’My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is ...

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”             Genesis 1:31 It is easy for others to accuse us of being lost in the planning, of focusing too much on the big picture of an unpredictable ...

“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”             John 5:24 Recently, I had a conversation with ...

 “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they ...

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”             Philippians 3:14 For two weeks every four years, thousands of people around the world unite around one common goal: ...