by Sallie Bachar | Sep 23, 2021 | Reflections
When the ordinary isn’t ordinary anymore and life comes crashing in on you, what do you do? If you are like me, you want to run away or you want to hide somewhere until the storm blows over. But you know you can’t run away. Where would you go? You know you can’t...
by Sallie Bachar | Jul 2, 2021 | Reflections
In a few days we celebrate the Fourth of July, with this year marking the 245th anniversary of our nation’s independence. Freedom is a precious gift that we often take for granted. It is a basic human right that many are denied. The Oxford Dictionary defines freedom...
by Sallie Bachar | Mar 19, 2021 | Reflections
A few nights ago I was awakened by terrifying screams outside our bedroom window. My husband and I live in the country surrounded by a small patch of woods, so I knew it wasn’t a human scream. I rushed to the window but couldn’t see anything at first. After the...
by Sallie Bachar | Jan 15, 2021 | Reflections
As we still stand on the threshold of a new year I would venture to say that most of us breathed a huge sigh of relief when we turned the calendar over to 2021, and yet, in many ways, we still carry 2020 with us. COVID-19 is still here. Racial injustice and...
by Sallie Bachar | Oct 23, 2020 | Reflections
“There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there, too . . . And that is all we can manage these days and also all that really matters: that we safeguard that little piece of You, God, in ourselves.” The above words were written by...
