by Carole Duff | Jan 20, 2025 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 2...
by Carole Duff | Jan 13, 2025 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
“I wonder if we’ll be satisfied with the results,” I said to Keith, as we ran the HeatTrak on the deck below the dining room windows. This area, on the north side of the house, accumulates snow and ice from what falls from the sky and off the roof. Concerned about...
by Carole Duff | Jan 6, 2025 | Faith |
“Rebutting Body Shame” first appeared in The Sage Forum’s January 2025 Newsletter. In the late 70s, my mother-in-law’s younger sister entered a women’s magazine make-over contest. Pat was in her mid-forties, a Harvard JD, teaching law at a prestigious university. “I...
by Carole Duff | Dec 30, 2024 | Faith |
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience… Colossians 3:12 ESV Was I thinking about humility yesterday morning, as I heard the words in the second reading? Or as I listened to a woman,...
by Carole Duff | Dec 23, 2024 | Faith |
My gift to you first appeared in The Sage Forum’s December 2024 newsletter. Carole Duff, flute, Carolyn Wallace, organ “He Shall Feed His Flock” from Handel’s Messiah Performed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fishersville,...
