There came a man named John who came to witness that the light, the true light that gives light to every man, was coming into the world.” John1: 6-9 My husband and I were a little more than twenty years old, had a VW Beetle, some savings, money in our pockets, a few clothes and military discharge papers. We were homeless and jobless, but it did not seem that way to us. We left San Antonio, Texas heading west for San Francisco, Seattle and eventually Wisconsin where we planne

It has been a long time since I offered my voice to our blog, the past two years have been a rough journey. I felt since my last offering Thin Places, it was time to finish the story. It's taken over a year to muster up the courage to put pen to paper. Life since then has been filled with deep sorrow and great loss. In March of 2019 I lost my mom and just fours months later my husband of 26 years, to their abrupt relentless battle's with cancer. It was a grueling and tragic y

“As often as the misdeeds of human beings pollute the elements, God will use human torments and calamities to purify them again; for God wants a clean earth and will not allow it to be harmed or destroyed through human actions.” Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179 The Merrimack River begins in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and flows into Massachusetts through the cities of Lawrence, North Andover (my hometown) and Haverhill and on to the Gulf of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean