Dear Friends, Today I will be giving you six different ways to interact with the problems of our nation. 1) The first, of course, is prayer. Quaker prayer is called “holding in…
Dear Friends, It is a day and age when it seems reasonable to shut the doors, pull the curtains, and quietly melt into the wallpaper. As the mother of an…
Dear Friends, We are in such a loving community with one another. Violence surrounds us through this administration and takes up most of our news cycles. There is so much…
Dear Friends, I am writing to you after leaving Michigan where it has been cold, and there has been plenty of snow. It was a wonderful trip to see Joe’s…
Dear Friends, I hope you all had as good of a Christmas as we had. Thank you to those of you who came out for the Christmas Eve service. Plus…
Dear Friends, We all have heard of the Christmas story. But think about how it is a great example of building a diverse community, those from other lands like the…
Dear Friends, I sit at the green light at the crossing of 6th and Washburn, and the person in front of me is off in another world too oblivious to move.…
Dear Friends, Well, it has started. The lights are up in town and in many houses on many streets, making it a spectacular experience just to take a drive through…
Dear Friends, I so enjoyed our Thanksgiving and hope you did as well. I love that the first week of advent (hope) is following Thanksgiving, because we can have more…
Dear Friends, The holiday season is here. And there might be a way to use the SPICES’ focus on simplicity to make it memorable while lowering the stress of the…