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The Greatest Strength

Here’s a quote we sometimes have a hard time believing. It comes from the book Travels In a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall. The quote is: “The greatest strength is gentleness.”

February 13, 2019 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Treasure Nearby This morning I finished reading for the second time “Pacem in Terris: A Love Story” by Frederick Franck. It is the story of a place which Franck and his wife Claske established in Warwick, NY and which they named “Pacem in Terris.” It is quite literally...

May 3, 2016 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Following Up on Lent

Following Up On Lent At the beginning of Lent I wrote about loving it. Now a few weeks after Lent, I need to follow up on it a little. It ended up being a strange Lent, because two and a half weeks after Ash Wednesday I had a...

May 2, 2016 Ann Ramblings No Comment

I Love Lent

I Love Lent I LOVE Lent and I don’t know if you’re even supposed to. But here I am anyway, loving it on the sixth day of Lent. I’m using a book this year titled “Forty Days of Decrease—A Different Kind of Hunger. A Different Kind of Fast,”...

February 16, 2016 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Lots About Books–and War

Lots About Books—and War – January 3 Per usual, I read a lot in 2015—as in 197 adult books and 46 youth and children’s books. I belong to a United Methodist Women’s BookWorms group that meets once a month and I read a lot of books from the...

January 3, 2016 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Cemetery Wandering

345. Cemetery Wandering I wandered our local cemetery today to stand beside a few of the many graves that were marked with flags. I am anti-war, and pro-veteran. Just the other day I saw on the internet a short documentary about veterans, and health care, and what our...

May 29, 2013 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Apology

A few days ago I wrote a story about the British Navy and the Irish Navy which I had come upon. I presented it as true, and a reader has called to my attention that it is not true. Good story—but not a true one. Sorry.

April 22, 2013 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Hope and Courage in Times Such As These

Hope and Courage in Times Such as These—A Concrete Example of Hope and Courage by Richard Deats For decades after the end of World War II, the Cold War reigned in a highly dangerous nuclear showdown between the Communist world and the West. Many people came to think...

June 25, 2011 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Restorative Justice in the United Methodist Church

This was the week of Amy DeLong’s United Methodist Church Trial. She was charged by the church with being a “self-avowed practicing homosexual” and with having performed a union service for two women. I spent the week thinking of her, praying for her and the entire process, helping...

June 25, 2011 Ann Ramblings No Comment

From Tim Wernette

Want to share a powerful experience I recently had up in Kingman High School. I was invited to participate in a morning assembly program (around 500 students) addressing a variety of violence issues. My presentation on sexual harassment prevention was first, followed by a police officer and DA discussing legal aspects...

April 19, 2011 Ann Ramblings No Comment