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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD Part 4 Changing Seasons

How do you survive the present darkness? Obviously, today’s darkness is great and many people are struggling in it. There is no place where one can escape the harsh realities of what appears to be a spiritual midnight falling on the hearts causing coldness, and the land, ending in greater lawlessness. These realities are clearly […]

“Ready or Not” By Rayola Kelley

When I was young, I used to play hide and seek. The person who had to find the kids in our particular group stood with their back to the rest of us and had to count to ten as they closed their eyes and when they hit that number, they would yell, “Ready or not, […]

HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE LEFT? By Rayola Kelley

Here we are another year passing us by like a run-away locomotive. Depending on where you are in the timeline of your life, we each eventually become more aware of how we are indeed a creature of time. For each of us there was clearly a beginning, and each year brings us face to face […]

CONSEQUENCES Part 1

Recently I watched a documentary that made an unsettling impression on me. It was based on a tragic, true incident that had to be disheartening to anyone who watched it. It simply started out with three young men in their late teens and early 20’s playing a prank on a family one Friday night in […]