by Carole Duff | May 26, 2025 | Faith |
Persevere, I said to myself. I’d pressed the foot pedal too hard and turned two pages instead of one on my iPad’s forScore app. Fumbling to find the correct place in the music, I played from memory, skipped what I couldn’t remember then caught up with the choir....
by Carole Duff | Apr 14, 2025 | Faith |
It might seem strange to be thinking about being scared, afraid, fearful, and frightened the day after Palm Sunday—picture taken last year. But Holy Week has plenty to be scared about, including a Son’s death. I scared Emmanuel Here’s a story from eight years ago....
by Carole Duff | Mar 3, 2025 | Faith, Nature |
“Poor things,” I muttered, “all because of the original sin.” I was clearing dead leaves from struggling herbs in pots and ground cover in landscape beds. We use the word “original” to refer to something existing from the beginning, as in an original...
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,...
