Grace Abounds! A couple of years ago, many of our pine trees on our grounds became victim to the California drought. One of the pine trees in the upper parking…

MOMENTS OF CALM Sometimes, not that often, we get to experience the feeling our life is drifting on. Not out of control, like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, but rather ebbing…

  When you think about it, none of us is a stranger to the experience of anxiety in our lives.  Money, relationships, politics, religion, disappointments, failures, misunderstandings…and the list goes…

My husband, Pat, and I love to garden, although there are times when it wouldn’t give that impression if you came to visit. Yet, while we have occasionally called in…

    ABSENT PRESENCE Recently I had the pleasure of being on retreat with Fr. Michael Fish, a Benedictine priest who lives as a hermit for most of the year,…