Archive for May, 2009

REMEMBERING: our memories as scripture

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

I spent much of Memorial Day weekend remembering. I didn’t go to any cemeteries or monuments to our fallen heroes. I took a tour of my closet full of photos, family histories, old letters, and crumbling albums.  I dredged up piles of neglected family debris and started making sense of it.
I found faded letters from [...]

HABITS OF BELIEF PART 2: Prayer

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Prayer: another dimension of our spiritual fitness training.  We practice shots from the free throw line, we go to the driving range and practice our swing, we lift weights, and do much for the training of our bodies. But spiritual fitness is something that has suffered in our age of skepticism and self-indulgence.

“I have [...]

LANDMARK DAYS and the first habit of belief by Jean Snow VanOrden

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Spring fever bit me and I haven’t felt like writing since the sun came out.
We have been shamelessly reveling in a week of gorgeous weather in the Anchorage area.  We take no sunny moment for granted. The Alaska weather Gods are not friendly and as soon as you make plans for the summer which include [...]