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Inspiration

By The Rev. Dr. David L. Bridges, Priest
May 21, 2020
As I sit at my desk hoping for inspiration to write this article, I realize that is what I should write about; Inspiration. Webster’s Dictionary defines it, in part, as: “An awakening, quickening, or creative impulse, especially as manifested in artistic achieveme...

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Tails Up!

By The Rev. Dr. David L. Bridges, Priest
May 06, 2020
You may have noticed the “ritual” involved with two or more dogs meeting for the first time. Of course there is the obligatory butt-sniffing (which has a scientific purpose, look it up), but long before that is the first impression response. Some dogs assume othe...

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After

By The Rev. Dr. David L. Bridges, Priest
April 29, 2020
There are events in life that cause us to measure time in terms of “before” and “after”. We clearly mark time in our stories as one or the other. For example: “Before 9-11, we didn’t have as much security at airports.” Or, “after...

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The Cocoon

By The Rev. Dr. David Bridges
April 15, 2020
The Corona Virus stay-in of 2020 is also being called “The Great Re-Set”. Nothing seems the same as before, and things may never be the same again. It that bad? I’m not sure. I have noticed more people talking about faith and spirituality. I have noticed mor...

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Spiritual PPE

By Fr. David Bridges
April 08, 2020
Lately we have been hearing and learning a great deal about PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). Many people are making their own face masks and hand sanitizer. We are taking great precautions for our own safety and that of others. One of those precautions is to shelter-in-p...

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The Garden

By Fr. David+
April 05, 2020
In the Book of Genesis there is a narrative describing the time before creation when “… no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up – for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to...

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Stay In

By Fr. David Bridges
March 25, 2020
Here we are at the “Stay In” learning how to work from home. Funny how many of us have dreamed of working from home, but now that we are staying home out of necessity, it may not be as much fun as we thought.  What is most difficult for me is not having &ldqu...

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Independence

By Fr. David
July 03, 2019
This July 4th the United States celebrates 243 years as a nation. I was reading the Declaration of Independence and noticed a few very significant phrases. Our founding fathers believed that this Nation should be formed to assume “the separate and equal station to which the...

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Beauty

By Fr. David
June 26, 2019
Have you seen those TV programs or on-line collections of advertisements and fashions from past decades? Sometimes the styles and fashions of the past look funny to us now. Other times, those styles and fashions return to popularity. Or perhaps you have seen advertisements from t...

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Behind the Scenes

By Fr. David
June 20, 2019
     We can’t always know what is happening behind the scenes. Often, years later we hear the story-behind-the-story. Macrina (340-379), a monastic and teacher, is at the heart of one of those stories. Macrina founded one of the earliest Christian communit...

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Toil & Trouble

By Fr. David
June 12, 2019
We have all known someone that seems to have a dark cloud over them. The weirdest and least-likely disasters happen to these people. Even when things are going well for them, they may make choices that bring more trouble into their lives. It seems that some people have had so muc...

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Preserve Us

By Fr. David
June 05, 2019
This prayer appears in the Daily Devotion section of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: “Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety to this new day: Preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversi...

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