April 2023

“Send forth flowers as the lily, and be fragrant; bring forth leaves in beauty, and with songs of praise bless the Lord in His works.” (Ecclesiasticus 39:19)  Dear Friends – In California we are recovering from a horrendous winter of record precipitation; wonderful for the rain and snow that brought us out of our years of drought, but exasperating for the physical damage incurred, and the claustrophobic anxiety that kept …

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April 2018

“The winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come…” (Song of Solomon 2:11-12) Dear Friends – Such joy arrives with the first vestiges of spring; the buds are bursting on the barren branches ready to explode under growing warmth, while the daffodils also eager to bloom, push their green stems onward and upward. Oh, what delight it …

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