A Prayer for Difficult Times In the quiet, let us gather our hearts, many hearts beating, many people dreaming, many souls yearning for peace, for freedom from worry, for assurance of a brighter tomorrow. We gather in difficult times. Swelling numbers of people unemployed, hungry, afraid. Swelling numbers of people living under the shadow of […]

A couple of days ago, I was out and about, enjoying the fall foliage. In the rain. With a hurricane threatening the surge up the Maine coast, the first hurricane warning Maine has had in something like 17 years. (The much touted Hurricane Kyle headed out to sea before it reached us — the hurricane