"Gardeners' World"

The Old Testament Lesson today is the second story of creation in the Book of Genesis.  I love this story because it is the kind of story one would read to a child at bedtime.  In fact, we should remember that the words of the scriptures that are now written down were once spoken – […]

'Knowing Who I Am'

These days, dealing with my teenage son, I realize how important it is to establish a right self-identity and how difficult it is to do that. “Birds struggle to hatch and come out.” In his novel Damian, Hermann Hesse compared the pain of puberty to a bird emerging from an egg. What kind of struggles […]