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Six or seven years ago, before Covid, my church at the time began offering “Ashes to Go” outside our parking lot. With deacons present we stuck hand warmers and toe warmers into our mittens and shoes, placed our stoles around our neck and outside we went praying this crazy new thing we were doing would work. We were lucky to be in a location where cars drove up and down the road dropping off their kids to school. We waved to everyone as they drove by – our sign nice and big o

I am obsessed with Olympic curling. I am riveted by it. I will be up at ridiculous times of night to watch big matches live. I just can’t get enough. For those who don’t know much about curling, it is a sport where teams “throw” (actually slide) granite stones with handles down a sheet of ice to a bullseye section on the opposite end. The team that gets the most stones closest to the center wins the end. The team with the most points in a certain amount of ends (8 or 10) wins

There are houses on our street that still have their Christmas lights up. And not just our street but many others as well. I bet there are in your neck of the woods, too. Bright lights of all colors just blazing away, doing their best to bust through the dark and the snow. Almost shining defiantly as if to say. “You can’t tell me when Christmas is over” or perhaps: “The dark is so dark and we need a little light in our lives”. I confess that while our inside tree was taken do