By Our weekly Wednesday night family program resumed, and last week the kids wrote this prayer. We are thankful that… we have an atrium we can go to church we have a community, food and the ability to play in the snow Help us today and every day to… have energy offer prayers persevere through the boring but necessary work help our family get help be with people we love Help us in our daily work of… school chores caring for dogs, cats, chickens, and little sisters working online walking God you are… helpful really nice awesome an amazing creator you
A Christmas Eve Retrospective
By Mary Ellen Mitchell, Lydia’s House co-director At 2pm on Christmas Eve I started gathering vases and table cloths to head to Lydia’s House because we were hosting “songs and stories” and an Italian dinner by candlelight, an event Meridith and I concocted to try and make things more festive at the shelter. I typically hate Christmas, but the guests at Lydia’s House take it to a whole new level, descending into despair for the birth of our Savior. As such, we thought it might be nice to give them something, besides sadness, to focus on. I arrived at our
