Archive for September 2021

It is a daily question that creates a drive in us to get out of bed and take on the challenges of a new week. Mondays have the potential for stress or joy. We often engage each Monday morning with the stress of what “has to be accomplished” before another weekend. Today, being a holiday,…

Sometimes in life we have to change the way we look at things. This is true not only in the arrangement of furniture in the Den, but our spiritual lives and September is an excellent opportunity to do this. When we look differently at our furniture sometimes we see things we never noticed before; and…

When we read from the Old Testament as Orthodox Christians, it can be a bit confusing at times. Maybe it is because it was written so long ago that we have forgotten the context in which the books were written. Maybe it is because it was written in a language we do not speak, then…

There is an old song that I grew up hearing which includes the phrase, “Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go.” If you know the song, you know the reason the writer can’t die quite yet. It doesn’t really matter what reason we give, we all at live with this thought. We…

Over the centuries people have taken advantage of fear tactics to spread false predictions about the return of Christ. Thousands of pages have probably been written describing in details various end of times prophecies. As of today, none have come true. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is,…