One of the things we have observed since moving here last year is that this place is extremely beautiful. The sunsets are especially pretty with colors of gold and yellow dancing on the water of the lake. The peach sunrises with all of the fowl of the area slowly awakening are spectacular, as are the…
Have you ever struggled to keep the expectations of others while walking your personal walk in the Light? Have you ever been told something isn’t Christian or isn’t Quakerly, and you secretly thought that this was silly. Our two replicas of Edward Hicks paintings are representative of his effort to do just this. Edward Hicks…
Before I came to Oregon, during the first year of the Trump administration, I watched 15 years of hard work be devastated with one executive order after another; clean air, clean water, recycling, garbage dumps all garbaged by someone with the power to throw them away. It was very depressing. I had fought to keep…
I appreciated being able to go to the Yearly Meeting’s annual gathering. Thank you, and I heard last week here at Klamath Falls Friends was a good service as well. At the annual gathering, it was great to see old friends from Richmond, Indiana and to be with the other pastors and people of the…
Many of us remember the Beach Boys “Good vibrations” song that was popular around the same time as “Turn, turn, turn.” “I’m picking up good vibrations”—Are you? Are you creating good vibrations? Our scripture tells us today, there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That…
There are many different visions of the future. Sometimes the future seems fearful and we fear we are going towards a national dictatorship, and that there are wars and mangled lives and tortured souls in so many places in the world, we might not see any hope of peace to anchor ourselves for. But these…
“In actions and in truth.” Powerful words with the emphasis being on the last word today – Truth. But trust is hard to restore once lost. Saying, “I’m sorry is not enough.” You will have to see that I love you in action and in truth. People in general have lost trust in humanity…
The scripture we heard was about the disciples’ third time of seeing Jesus after the resurrection. The scene takes place at least a week after the resurrection, and after Jesus had sent them out with specific instructions to forgive the sins of others. “So send I you,” are the words we best know that Christ…
In the story of Jesus’ passion walk through the streets, his punishments, his legal trials, illegal trials, to the cross and beyond to the grave and the resurrection, women played a significant role in the Easter story. Women were depicted as the only courageously strong people who cared deeply for Jesus and were repeatedly not…
Have you ever candled an egg? If you have laying hens and a rooster you have to look at eggs to see if they are fertile, have a chick embryo inside, or if they are good for breakfast or to hold a cake together. You hold the egg up in a dark closet or at…