Category Archives: Renewal
Renewal: A New Year
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year, but that we should have a new soul.” ~ G.K. Chesterton Rosh Hashanah is, in essence, the Jewish New Year, and the first of the … Continue reading
Renewal: What Renews You?
What is it that renews you? I don’t care how long the renewal lasts. What renews you, for a moment, for an hour, for a day? How long since you last bent over a sink and splashed cold, running water … Continue reading
Renewal: Consume or Create?
After a couple of stories recently on NPR about businesses and charities that are trying to do their work in “out of the box” sort of ways, it occurred to me that in my experience with the business world, there … Continue reading
Renewal: Our Work Connects Us
When our children were small, some of their friends convinced them that it was a shame that their parents had to pay taxes for public schools since they went to private schools. Our children came home and repeated that as … Continue reading
Renewal–Just for today
As I write this, it is raining, again. We have had more rain this summer than in many years’ memory. We have complained about it, but the reality is that the earth has never been greener in this part of … Continue reading