“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare, English Dramatist “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It […]
An RYS story by John W. Gehring A Time of Political and Social Transition During the closing years of General Marcos’s rule in the Philippines, in an act based on political calculation, many families living on squatted land in Manila were forcibly relocated in an effort to avoid civil strife. Das Marinas, a small coastal […]
In coming together to learn of spiritual things on Sundays, there is a natural assumption that we have a spirit or soul to take care of. Some may doubt that or more likely, live somewhere between doubt and certainty. It is often the catastrophic that propels us toward certainty. You have all heard of an […]
This Sunday’s message on lasting love was given by Gerry Servito at our NH Faith Fusion Sunday celebration . It was video taped and will be posted in 2 or 3 parts. Please enjoy the following intro video called “A Different Love Story”, and the first part of “Lasting Love Begins With God” in the second […]
What is Mother’s Day? What is the significance of mother’s love? I’d like to take a look at what parallels there are between mother’s love, and God’s love. Looking at these parallels will help us understand the depth of God’s love more deeply, the significance of a mother’s love, and gain a more realistic attitude towards our […]
Listening for God’s still, small voice in our lives means that first we have to pay attention. I prefer the verb to listen rather than to hear, because hearing is passive while listening is active. Hearing someone implies that the other person has already spoken and our job is simply to pick up on what […]
“Go Ahead. Judge Me.” In coming up on the end of my first year of motherhood, I’ve been doing some reflecting on the things I’ve learned, and the first major lesson I’ve absorbed is this: Everyone judges my parenting; I am the worst mother in the world, and that’s okay. I work. Full time. Because […]
Creating Love between Partners I found a list of “horizontal” virtues 40 years ago, when I was just out of college and had despaired of ever finding true romantic love. I couldn’t imagine finding a girl who’d be faithful to me for life. And in truth, I couldn’t imagine that I had it in me […]
In Search of Our Home Home is something that everyone longs for no matter their origin or culture. In the end it’s the one thing that counts. A home is a place for our hearts to dwell; it reflects our soul and provides a sense of place from where to cast our lives. Home is […]
Healing Is A Choice – Book Review Everyone gets sick from time to time and there are many causes from viruses and bacteria to stress and environmental toxins. Many of these things are out of our control, so to say that healing is a choice brings up a lot of questions in my mind. Some people […]
