What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.