By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 12, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé In Michael’s and my further discussions about faith, Michael spoke of and compared secular faith with that of faith in God, both of which were introduced in last week’s blog. So profoundly, he said, “ Faith in people and things gives you strength, but faith in God
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 4, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé As you, the readers of this blog know, Michael chooses each week’s new topic. We were discussing what would be both timely for our present hour and timeless for the ages, when Michael answered this question by saying, “This week, let’s write about the subject of faith.” Doesn’t
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 29, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael was speaking of how people’s lives are reborn and how there are seasons of this rebirth. This great truth of which Michael spoke, brought to my mind a powerful sermon which I recently watched on You Tube. It was preached by Bishop Kenneth Ulmer of Faithful Central
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 21, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael raised the subject of sorrow this week, as we were talking about the season of Covid and the losses we are all suffering in so many aspects of our lives. What was both extremely compelling, as well as interestingly counterintuitive, were the words Michael went on to
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 14, 2022
by Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael and I continue to talk about how we want this week’s blog to bear upon and strongly connect with our lives today in the age of Covid. We have been discussing the effects of living during a pandemic and agree that one of the most difficult is
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 7, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé This week, Michael and I were talking about what we want this blog to be, i.e. how to live godly, even joyful lives, now, in the time of Covid and the era of the domino effects of it in almost every aspect of our reality. Michael reminded me
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: December 31, 2021
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé My desk looks outside through a bank of windows and, now, a few days before the new year, it has the full view of a California rainstorm splashing against the panes and on the porch beside this room. The scene brings to mind Michael’s recent words about how
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: December 20, 2021
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé In a few days, we will celebrate the most important event that has ever occurred in human history – Jesus’ rescue mission to Earth. As set forth in the last blog, the goodbyes in Heaven had been said and the hour was at hand. In planning this Christmas
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: December 14, 2021
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael reminds us that, “In the Native American culture, the storyteller is the most important person in the tribe.” This individual outranks even the tribe’s Chief. Why? Because, it is through the storyteller that the tribe’s yesterdays are able to be perpetuated into its
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: December 4, 2021
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael and I have written, in a previous blog, the famous advice that Ernest Hemingway gave all who embark on this adventure we call writing. This bears repeating with regard to its relevance in this week’s blog. Hemingway’s wise counsel to writers was this: “Write one true
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