A Year of Reflections: Week Seventeen

Nothing Says ‘I Love You’ Like… Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer This Memorial Day weekend was also the anniversary of the devastating tornado that struck our area of Benton County a year ago. I had purchased flower arrangements to place on my parents’ and grandparents’...

A Year of Reflections: Week Sixteen

Nature’s Gifts Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Spring is a time of promise for nature’s bounty after the chill of winter. Birds are nesting. Trees are blooming. Fresh greens are ready for harvest. And gardeners are planting as well as beginning to pick their garden’s...

A Year of Reflections: Week Fifteen

Exercising Your “New Man” Nature Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In 1999 V.H. Carr introduced the concept of 5 stages of technological adoption. From innovators who love trying the latest new gadget to the laggards who resist new technology until it is inevitable, we...

A Year of Reflections: Week Fourteen

A Cup of This, a Tablespoon of That Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer What kind of cook are you? I tend to be a “substitute this for that, let’s experiment” cook rather than a “it tastes the same each time I make it” cook. I can assure you some of my trials are failures...

A Year of Reflections: Week Thirteen

Do I Really Have to Forgive…Again? By Ruth Ann Stites Back in Week 6 we looked at Jesus’ teachings on being forgiving people. If his words were not enough to wrap our heads around, here are a few other Scriptures addressing the topic of forgiveness: In him we have...