by vfcadmin | Jul 23, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Summer’s Abundance Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer One of the pleasures of the season of the summer solstice is a drive through the verdant countryside with the light of early evening making the newly cut hay golden. If you drive down a country road with your windows...
by vfcadmin | Jul 16, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Longing for the Heart’s True Home Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer The Wind in the Willows provided us with the imagery for a longing for home last week. Mole finds his old home and leaves it again for adventures in the “upper world.” This week I want to look at that...
by vfcadmin | Jul 9, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Leaving Home for the Wider World Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer As you have no doubt guessed, I like unusual words. Here’s a good one anthropomorphism defined as “the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.” In literature this...
by vfcadmin | Jul 2, 2025 | Year of Reflection
How We Will Be Measured Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In our Reflection for Week Twenty-One, I told the stories of two people who lived about 3000 years apart in time, Julia Child and King David. Not only did they live millennia apart, but their deeds were also vastly...
by vfcadmin | Jun 25, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Who We Used to Be Shapes Who We Become Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer When I mention the name Julia Child the first image that probably comes to mind would be Julia in her kitchen teaching us how to make something very French ending with the dish beautifully plated and...
by vfcadmin | Jun 18, 2025 | Year of Reflection
A Royal Personage: You Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer As children of God and co-heirs with Christ we are part of a royal priesthood (Rom. 8:17; 2 Cor. 6:18; Heb. 4:14-16; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Rev. 1:6). Have you ever stopped to consider what your responsibilities are as a...
