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Last week, we spent time discussing seeds and soil and how both need to be the best they can be to produce the best harvest.  Today we turn our attention to the harvesting of those seeds in yet another agricultural…

Show of hands, how many of you have ever grown anything in the ground?  Okay, so many of you are like me and have, from time to time, planted something in the ground to see if it would grow.  Sometimes…

  This weekend we call to mind the memory of the men and women who have fought to secure our freedoms.  From the first shots fired on Lexington Green to the soldiers, sailors, and Marines on the front lines today. …

Many years ago, I was sitting in a church the Sunday after Easter, and as the service began, the minister welcomed everyone who had come out, looked around, and said, “well, it’s just us again.”  Of course, this was about…

Each year, during the time of Lent, I like to get away for a few days of retreat.  The first real retreat I ever participated in took place at the Jesuit retreat center at Eastern Point in Gloucester.  This place…

Our words have consequences sometimes when we don’t even know it.  A passing comment, a snide remark, a joke, to the person listening, these words can be like daggers to the heart.  Sure, it’s all the rage now to say…

I am a fan of British comedy.  I do not know why, most of the time I do not understand the type of humor, but there is something about it that I guess refreshing.  They do not take themselves very…