SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
MOUNT ST. HELENS
It was 39 years ago this week (May 18th, to be exact and hard to believe) that Mount St. Helens erupted. It was a Sunday, early in the morning, I...
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Rick Vale
THE CHURCH
ROOTS & WIND
There is a beautiful street close to my neighborhood. It is exceptionally beautiful during Indiana autumn and Indiana spring. In the spring, the beautiful, white, flowering trees that line the...
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May 07, 2019
ENCOURAGEMENT
RE-PLANTING
RE-PLANTING. Five years ago I travelled back to my home state of Washington, to take my Dad’s ashes back home, and to spend some time with friends and family on...
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April 30, 2019
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THE HEAD OF CHRIST
Warner Elias Sallman, a first-generation American (his parents were immigrants from Finland and Sweden), sang in his local church choir in Chicago. It was there he met his wife, Ruth...
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April 23, 2019
THE CHURCH
INDIANA EASTER
It was only a few years ago that I brushed the snow off of my car, with my palm frond from the Palm Sunday worship, I remember thinking to myself,...
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April 16, 2019
ENCOURAGEMENT
PALM SUNDAY DANCE
PALM SUNDAY. I have some wonderful memories associated with this day and time. My Dad was the choir director at my home church, for several years, and Palm Sunday evening...
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April 09, 2019
ENCOURAGEMENT
POT HOLES
I don’t know if you’ve seen the “11 Seasons of Indiana” (here they are, for your information): Winter Fool’s Spring Pot Hole Period Second Winter Spring of Deception/Pot Hole Season...
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April 03, 2019
THE CHURCH
PERSPECTIVE
I am missing Marge and Tom in different ways and at different times each passing year. The grieving doesn’t lessen, it just changes. Marge and Tom are known to me...
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March 27, 2019
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
AGE & INTROSPECTION
That’s what my life is now. I know, that by some standards, I’m still young…but as my Doctor tells me; though my years may be 60 (soon to be 61),...
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March 19, 2019
ENCOURAGEMENT
LEONARDO
We are approaching the Birthday of one of my favorite personalities in all of the world’s artistic history: Leonardo DaVinci (April 15th). One of my personal heroes, Leonardo was one...
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