by Sallie Bachar | Aug 24, 2018 | Reflections
Author Jan Richardson, in her book The Cure for Sorrow, offers a suggestion to begin the day with a soulful question. That is to ask yourself, “What do I need today?” Some days the answer will come easily. Others, we may struggle to discern what our deepest need...
by Sallie Bachar | Jul 6, 2018 | Reflections
My heart is still heavy as I write this, and words cannot adequately express my sorrow, anger and shame. Our country has sunk to a new low with the recent immigration crisis – innocent children separated from their families who had illegally crossed our southern...
by Sallie Bachar | May 3, 2018 | Reflections
Not all desert places are dry, barren, sandy, and lifeless. Even a place such as Florida in spring can be a desert. I spent the month of March there, and my experience revealed to me that a desert can be anywhere and at any time. It is any place we enter alone,...
by Sallie Bachar | Mar 16, 2018 | Reflections
We are all familiar with the gospel passage in John 2 where Jesus enters the temple, and consumed with anger, drives out the sheep and oxen with a whip and overturns the tables of the moneychangers, spilling their coins everywhere. It’s a story that has always made me...
by Sallie Bachar | Dec 29, 2017 | Reflections
I find these days between Christmas and New Years to be somewhat of a liminal space for me. The weeks of baking, decorating, buying and wrapping gifts have culminated in our celebration of the birth of the Word Made Flesh, the coming of Christ among us. While the...
