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Winter in the Shenandoah Valley Part 2
We had a much smaller snowstorm in January, but the second major snowstorm this season came Thursday evening, 4 February 2010. And again the landscape was shrouded in white. I had not yet shoveled the walk when I took this photograph. By the time it was over, there was under 2 feet on the ground. […]
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Winter in the Shenandoah Valley Part 1
It was the second storm of December 2009 that made us notice. 25 inches in my yard. That weekend the town was paralyzed … well, most of the east coast was as well. The lowest hinges on the church’s front doors are about a foot from the ground. But the drifts along the rest of the […]
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Wisdom from a Can of Beans
Instinctively we trust what the label boldly proclaims … a product prepared, packaged and marketed by strangers we have never met and will never know. What will it take for us to let go of fear and begin to trust the One who has walked with us all our lives?