It's 2017! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Although no one knows what the days ahead will bring, let's vow, this day, to come together with understanding, gratitude, love and peace. May this be a blessed day and a prosperous year for you and your family!

Celebrating Kwanzaa

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Kwanzaa, the celebration of family, community, and culture is celebrated from December 26 - January 1. Dr. Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, establishes the values of this 7-Day celebration based on the following principles:

Happy Kwanzaa!

After the Rain

As the showers came pouring down today, I looked for a special delivery, because it always comes out when the sun shines after a rainstorm. I didn't see it yet, but I knew it would appear because it always shows up when the sun shines after the rain. For a minute I stepped away from the window but came back and there it was. In all of its brilliance and beauty, a perfect arch of colors beamed among the clouds in the sky.

I think about the 1944 song by Ella Fitzgerald featuring The Ink Spots, "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" and reflect on this experience I am embracing. The third verse of this song says:

Into each and every life some rain has got to fall

But too much of that stuff

Is fallin' into mine

And into each heart some tears gotta fall

And I know that someday that sun is bound to shine

For a moment, I felt a spiritual epiphany, when I thought about the rain in our lives (trials and tribulations) and what happens to us when the sun (Son) comes out. As that brilliant light shines, that's when our true colors (victory) begin to radiate brightly, as we become the dazzling gems in God's eyes. Our true vibrant colors shine through the rain in our lives when we allow the Son to come in as the sun comes out! You can't have a rainbow without the rain!

Happy 4th of July

Have a safe and Happy 4th of July!

Orlando, We Can't Forget

Orlando, Florida we are praying with you and for you. Remembering the victims of The Pulse Nightclub and singer Christina Grimmie.

The Peace Angel

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    Angel of Peace, the hounds of war,

    Unleashed, are all abroad,

    And war's foul trade again is made

         Man's leading aim in life.

    Blood dyes the billow and the sod;

         The very winds are rife

    With tales of slaughter.    Angel, pray,

    What can we do or think or say

    In times like these?

        'Child, think of God!'

    'Before this little speck in space

    Called Earth with light was shod,

    Great chains and tiers of splendid spheres

         Were fashioned by His hand.

    Be thine the part to love and laud,

         Nor seek to understand.

    Go lift thine eyes from death-charged guns

    To one who made a billion suns;

    And trust and wait.

        Child, dwell on God!'

Remembering Our Fallen on Memorial Day

Happy Mother's Day