Musings

By Lauren Catanese, Life is funny. Isn’t it? The path that we live each day, the actions we take, people we interact with, times we stop to breath. Life’s movement will bring us through any and everything our soul needs for its own evolution; it’s purpose. We venture out and...

By Kirk McCarley, “We’re doing twice the work we used to do and getting paid the same.” “This new machine’s not as good as what we had before.” Sound familiar? Consider the first statement, the “do more with less” complaint.  Aren’t nearly all of us are required to be more productive than we...

By Rick Moore, (If you don’t like sad stories, you may not want to read this one.) We had traveled in the bus for over a hundred miles to the campsite located in the hills of Tennessee, as had several other Boy Scout troops from the state. Our Scoutmaster was...

Since this is the month of Easter, I want to reflect on and talk about grace. I know there are various definitions of grace. Among them are: “simple elegance or refinement of movement;” “an attractively polite manner of behaving;” and “a period officially allowed for payment of a sum...

By Sean Dietrich “Will the room please settle down before the dance begins?!” says Gary to the elderly crowd in the nursing home cafeteria. “Simmer down, please!” Gary is an old man with a saxophone dangling from his neck. He speaks over a microphone, addressing old folks who are all wearing...

By Lauren Catanese Life is like a song. A melodic tune that carries with it all kinds of notes and inflections, pauses, rises & deeper hues. But also, just like your favorite song, life always keeps flowing. We are the witnesses to what is created and we feel the different...

By Kirk McCarley, At a recent Spinning class I lead, a participant greeted me with the question, “so Kirk are you going to put us through an arduous workout this morning?”  Following a chuckle and a moment of processing we moved into our hour long routine.  Curiously, throughout the next...

By Rick Moore, This is the story as it was told to me. In 1899, Malaky, her brothers David and Naif, along with their mom and dad, boarded a steamship heading from Byblos, Lebanon to New York City. Malaky was eleven, David was four, and Naif was one year old....

By Dave Holland “As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was...

By Lauren Catanese Have you taken a pause in your life recently? A good one; whatever moment you find yourself in you shift your focus from what your mind is thinking and pay attention to your senses. Looking around, what do you see, hear, smell, feel? And really take it...