Working out delays effects of aging Many people think of stiff joints and slow movement as just normal parts of aging, but if people keep up healthy, active lifestyles as they age, they can ward off some of those health problems, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. People of any age can star...

As I browse through the latest Omega catalog and marvel at the number of workshops offering to heal this, Zen that, and help you attain enlightenment with this modality, that teaching, and this method, I am heartened to see that good free (and fun) yoga stuff still exists. I just recently simplified...

I don't think I've met one single pregnant woman who didn't experience shortness of breath, but I'm only 20w2d and sometimes I feel like I'm going to keel over from lack of oxygen. I've had a hard time breathing basically since I first got pregnant, but as baby boy grows....whew it's hard to br...

My scent is driving me crazy. I smoked my last cigarette in January 2004. That's five years plus, 62 months exactly. I have avoided smoking environments and pray that I am never tempted to take another drag on a fag. But for the past week, I have been distracted by a persistent scent of concentrated...

Rainbows are but one of the signscovenants of the creatorThe order of the worldHis faithfulness to us, his childrenwhether deserving or notIn the turning of the seasons,the words of the scripturesthe story of his boundless loveThe gift of life, born of clay, The breath of GodOur salvation, the offer...

This night, especially this nightfeeling you, Lordsitting beside me in the pewwanting only to take his handhe is beside us, each onewalking, leading ushis face toward Jerusalemour steps, yoked together leading us to that daythe fated day upon the crossleading us still, onwardtoward the cross, beyond...

Setting his face toward Jerusalemknowing the cross ahead, waiting for himthese days of journey, walking with Christhopeful days, our greatest hoperecognizing, knowing we are the ashesthe dust, knowing we need God’s gracehope, not in our confidence, not in our worksonly in the saving grace of the s...

Ashes on my fingers, on my skin,the smoke, filling my lungsthe moment, the power, of the sacrificethese days of Lent, beginning todaymore awesome, greater claritynow, today, having burned the palmshaving broken those which were held in hopein reverence, for the coming of the kingtriumphant into his ...

Marked by the ashes, the stain of your offeringa reminder of the dust, the dirt from which we comethe ancient rituals, the ashes of the offeringhumble before our Godfalling at the altar, in the temple, before youbringing a noble sin offering, his body for our lives, consumed on the crossto the earth...

Marked by the ashes, the earththe palms of his processionwelcoming the kinga reminder of his tempting,his choice of service, of faithhonoring his calling, his fulfillingwithstanding the devil, submitting to Godbeing dirt, being clay, to the master’s willshaped, touched by the potter’s handsmade ...