Prayers for Oakley

Thanksgiving is a time for family, for love, for reflection, and of course for a large, hot meal. It is a holiday in which we take time to appreciate all these blessings and the many more in our lives. Sadly, for one local family, a tragedy marred their Thanksgiving....

A Thanksgiving Prayer

On this day designated to give thanks to God for faith, family, friends and abundant blessings, I would like to share a prayer of thanks from The Valley Of Vision, a collection of elegant Puritan prayers. Generations have passed, and yet our prayers remain consistent....

What about the rest of us?

This past weekend my husband, John, and I were out to dinner with some friends. Afterwards, we were sitting by the fireplace in the lounge savoring the close of a wonderful evening, when a woman bumped into me as she took a seat nearby. She was carrying a unique and...

Give the Gift of Today to God

As with many of you, I say my prayers before going to sleep. I’ll say The Lord’s Prayer, a Hail Mary, and then, depending on my level of drowsiness, a few personal prayers that are on my heart. I have to admit that since having a child, making it through...

A Heavenly Birthday

This week, my daughter Dawn, would be thirty-six years old. I’ll never know if she would have become the Olympic ice skater or hand surgeon that she dreamed of becoming, or if she would have a family of her own and I would be a grandmother several times over by now....

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