Featured image: Celtic Knotwork in the windows at St Clement Church, near Truro, Cornwall. Cogitation 29 Saturday 29 September 2018 “Silent meditation on symbols and patterns can produce more spirituality, evangelism, social engagement, than a thousand words.” So wrote Martin Wallace in a booklet, Celtic Reflections (Tim Tiley Ltd, Bristol, U.K., 2005) If you …
Featured image: A cozy fire outside our cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Cogitation 38 Saturday 22 September 2018 As i look back over my week and the week before that, can I recapture the glow? Recapture it, that is, before whooshing all-too-madly on. A week ago we were winding up the last days of …
Featured image: "Bear! Bear!" shouted our guide above the din of our ancient trolley train that took us to the boat on the Tahquamenon Falls journey. The bear disappeared as we got close. Cogitation 37 Saturday 15 September 2018 "Embrace our vastness" could be a slogan for the State of Michigan. The state …
Cogitation 36 Saturday 8 September 2018 If truth were a serum, what a strangely wonderful world we'd have. It would be a world where fact and fiction would have their proper place. We use the term, "Truth is stranger than fiction." That means that if I happen to run into someone at the Museum …
Cogitation 35 Saturday 1 September 2018 We visited the new Children's Garden at The Wellfield Botanic Gardens in Elkhart. We did everything but crawl through the tunnel. It's a go-to place for people of all ages. Go children of every age! Mishawaka-Shiojiri Children's Sculpture Earlier in the week we visited the Japanese Garden …
Featured Image: Passionflower, along the St Joseph River, Elkhart, Indiana. Cogitation 34 Saturday 25 August 2018 I know a little about plants, trees, birds, insects and other living things. So last Sunday I was one among five people who showed pictures about birds. It was the last of our church's monthly summer informal …
Featured image: It's the season for roadwork in parts where snow and ice seem far away. Cogitation 33 Saturday 18 August 2018 August flows on like a river, each day a tributary of the ever-flowing, changing, sometimes churning stream. People connections stand out in this coursing month. Such as coffee and a donut …
Featured image: The cardinal, Official State Bird of Indiana. Cogitation 32 Friday 10 August 2018 Historians dig deep into political, economic, intellectual, or other past markers to shed light on what human beings did in creating the world we live in. For sure, big personalities or heroes from the past have much to teach …
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Featured image: The Regulator clock keeps up with the time in the narthex and library at Cassel Mennonite Church. My grandparents, Solomon and Rachel, were for many years caretakers for the church and wound this clock each Sunday morning. Cogitation 31 Friday 3 August 2018 Saying "goodbye" in person often includes a hug. …
Featured image: Diamond is one of the rabbits Silas Stutzman entered at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, The family had nine entries: six rabbits, a forestry poster and microwave fudge by Silas and a poster by his sister, Junia, of her pet rabbit. Silas came away with more than 20 ribbons. Cogitation 30 Saturday …
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