HILLSVILLE  PRESBYTERIAN

It's summertime! And where there are swimming pools, there are bodies of all sizes and shapes diving, paddling, bobbing, and floating in...

Years ago, I had the bright idea to add a butcher-block-topped island to my kitchen. One with drawers. One that I could pull a couple of...

What do you see in this photograph? Better yet, what do you feel when you look at it? According to its source (wix.com) the bridge exists...

The cherry orchard is open for business! This makes my sister-in-law who adores tart cherries a very happy camper. Now we wait for the...

Color bombs. Who thought of such things? Who chooses to be part of such a whacky experience? Is it just creative chaos? Mass mayhem?...

If we gave a moment's thought to the subject of evil and polled our friends and neighbors about it, we might not come to consensus on how...

Stop just one minute. Think. Reflect on this question, "Who do I keep company with on a regular basis?" And then wonder. Is it what...

This photograph might make many of us cringe. Its title, according to its source (wix.com), is "Deforestation." For all who love nature...

We like to think it's a given that those two words fit together in perfect harmony. Safe. Home. Of course, they mean different things in...

Most of us dread aging. Many of us do all we can to delay it. At some point we realize there's no avoiding it if we keep waking up in the...

It may well be that Robert Frost was the first person to pin the words to a piece of paper with the ink in his pen... but he probably...

The signs are all around us. A change of seasons. The grass has greened and grown. Flowers and trees have exploded with blossoms of...

We say we don't like confrontation. We claim to be conflict adverse. We profess to like people, yet we regularly tangle with certain...

Do we really learn from our mistakes? Or do they just haunt us, hound us, hollow us out by eroding our confidence? Are there really...

In a book about communication, the author (Thomas Kirkpatrick) says, "Hearing is what we do with our ears, while listening is what we do...

Maybe it's splitting hairs. Maybe it's jumping through mental hoops. And maybe there's a grain of truth in it all... that doubts and...

Actually, more than ok. Good. Even right. We probably think of recklessness as being wildly out of control. Like reckless driving....

Maybe it is so and maybe it is not. A story of a lovely, peaceful, lush garden. Only two human beings. One known as male, the other...

Light. We really miss it when it's in short supply. It's the reason we put lights on trees and shrubbery and mantels and mailboxes and...

Musicians playing stringed instruments amaze me. Especially when they pick the strings to make marvelous melodies. I could listen to...