Daily Connector | Just the two of us | Shirley Miller
Happy Easter Monday! Refrain: “Do not let your heart be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me.” John 14:1 What a most unusual Lent. Yesterday Christians in the western world celebrated Jesus resurrection. This year, however, the Lenten season must continue. The world is groaning, bewildered,…
Daily Connector | Writing/Reading, Music and Beauty | Lavonne van der Zwaag
First, an update on my life. Initially, as an essential worker, I continued to go into the office (OhioHealth’s Kobacker House). While I found it hard to leave home each morning, once I was out the door, I found it easy and empowering to turn my thoughts to what needed…
Daily Connector | The New Normal | Karen Mareco
I’ve been a WAH for over 30 years, so working from home is normal. However, this doesn’t “feel” normal. These are just some various scattered thoughts that might resonate with some of you. My son who is currently living with me and I both feel the reality of being in…
Daily Connector | God cares, God is here | Linda Mercadante
I’m not very good at spiritual platitudes. If that’s what you’re looking for today, I’m sorry but I’m not your girl. Being raised in a rough city, with one Jewish and one Italian Catholic immigrant parent, I was early aware of the dark side of life. Religion wasn’t practiced in…
Daily Connector | Music for my soul | Tom Blosser
Music has been an emotional and spiritual ministration and outlet for me for as long as I can remember. As a young child I remember hearing my mom play piano and seeing the quiet joy in her face and in her being. As a shy adolescent, music was a virtual…
Daily Connector | For you are forever | Sarah Werner
Expressions of gratitude are something that I see a lot more of on Facebook these days. A few of my friends post from their gratitude journals each day, reminders of the small things they are grateful for—bluebonnets (a Texas luxury seen on every roadside in April), creative smiling children, an…
Daily Connector | Flavorful open table | Becca Rossiter Lachman
One of the many strange layers Michael and I find ourselves living into right now is the fact we aren’t in the minority anymore when listening in to CMC services from afar… Even though I’m working from home and we’re trying to stay on our property as much…
Daily Connector | An intensified quality to gratefulness | Ryan Hoke
I know the stories I tell myself matter. Reality is one thing and then the meaning I make often miles away from that reality. Our little family (working parents, three kids–five, two, and six weeks old) went from a full life of schedule, routine (school, work, daycare, weekends, repeat) to…
Daily Connector | Normal or Abnormal | Dan Halterman
Based on March 20 journal notes (I forced myself from my warm bed to scribble these thoughts, to not lose them in sleep) It is odd to be a potential mortal threat to family, friends, and strangers, and for them to be the same to me. My taxes regularly buy…
Daily Connector | The reach of our love | Nancy Franke
I have been taken by a book of poetry written by Ellen Kreider’s late husband, David Wirick, Where There is Darkness, Light. The following is one that struck me as I was contemplating the many small kindnesses Maris and I have experienced during this time of isolation. We have had…
