Hearth and home

You may be wondering why I have a penchant for wanting to read things such as “The death of Christian Culture” and “The Restoration of ...

This passage from Thomas a Kempis' classic devotional The Imitation of Christ struck me this morning as being very beautiful and ins...

                                               Fifty Days of Easter celebration between Easter Sunday and Pentecost!  At our house we lik...

The ancient grayness shifted Suddenly and thinned Like mist upon the moors Before a wind. An old, old prophet lifted A shin...

  For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;   The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, an...

A few nice days in March does a lot for a spring-like outlook - even though we know we still have to suffer winter -like weather.  ...

Today it is 10 degrees and going much lower tonight.  The ground is mostly snow covered with a few patches of very dead looking brown grass....