by Debra Darvick | Jul 13, 2014 | Bookshelf, Prayerlooms, Read the Spirit
Brother, courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply. Thomas Merton The first three years of my son’s life, I kept a daily journal. Unbelievable, right? Through diapers and colic, first teeth and first words, I made time to record the wonder of our...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 6, 2014 | Musings, Prayerlooms, Read the Spirit, Uncategorized
Basements are the modern-day equivalent to the genizah. Genizah, (Hebrew root g-n-z) originally referred to the act of putting away or hiding. The word eventually developed to refer to the actual place where things were deposited, which I think is a perfect example of...
by Debra Darvick | Nov 4, 2013 | Musings, Prayerlooms, Read the Spirit
A week or so ago I had the pleasure of participating in a program at the Northville First United Methodist Church sponsored by the Read The Spirit team. As regular readers of this site know, David Crumm is my publisher and one of the creators of Read The Spirit online...
by Debra Darvick | Oct 21, 2013 | Prayerlooms
A few weeks back, I wrote a column about “prayerlooms,” a word I coined for the column to describe those mementos and dear-to-the-heart items that we tuck away for a future generation to enjoy. At the time I invited me readers to share their own, and I was...