Featured image: The beauty of turned leaves early in the week, bare branches days later. Cogitation 35 Saturday 10 November 2018 I think about church, the church I attend, the faith community my church affiliates with--that's Mennonite Church USA--the church universal, and other faith groups, I'm unhappy with aspects of what is referred to …
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Featured image: Oatmeal, porridge, whatever you call it, I like it. I had this bowl of steel-cut goodness at Hoppers Restaurant on Old US 31, a few miles south of Berrien Springs, Michigan, It was our breakfast stop on a two-day foray into Southwest Michigan. Cogitation 34 Saturday 3 November 2018 Turning back the …
Featured image: Some Amish farmers still harvest corn the old corn binder and stook way. I remember when that was common practice, like the late 1940s. This year the silo and the barn on the farm where I grew up were toppled. Change is good, especially as we take the lessons of life to heart …
Featured image: One of the pumpkin displays in Wellfield Botanic Gardens, Elkhart, Indiana. Cogitation 32 Friday October 19 2018 For all I'd like to say, good or bad, I'll limit this blog to mostly photos, including the brilliant medieval-themed wedding of Kyle and Kara Castle last Saturday, ending with a quote from Emily Bronte. Like …
Featured image: A cake fit for angels, and it's gluten-free. Cogitation 31 Saturday 13 October 2018 We observed Thanksgiving in Canada. Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October. Over the course of four days we had three Thanksgiving meals; one hosted by Sandy and Joy, the second by Mark and Christa. On Thanksgiving …
Featured image: The maple had to go before it fell. Cogitation 30 Saturday 06 October 2018 The maple tree in our back yard needed to go. Two arborists examined our dear maple. One of them injected it with two dozen vials of medicine in the spring, but the leaves on the failing side did …
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 …
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