Written By: Lauren Geall, Stylist Struggling to keep your emotions in check? One recent study could offer some answers.  To say the last few years have been emotionally overwhelming would be a bit of an understatement. From anxiety and loneliness to frustration and sadness, the coronavirus pandemic has certainly been one hell of an emotional […]

Speaking of ways to practice resting:

I highly recommend this book, Stolen Focus, and the accompanying podcast from author Johann Hari. In them, Mr. Hari lays out a very convincing argument for why people have a much harder time paying attention than we did even 20 years ago. He also presents some fairly simple strategies for correcting it. Most of them […]

Patience is not a characteristic that we often associate with children, particularly not children in 2023. One of the reasons for this is that many of us no longer teach children HOW to be patient; probably because it takes a fair bit of time and patience on the part of the parents, both of which […]

Week 1 A few of Gaithersburg Presbyterian Preschool and Kindergarten and the GPC Young Families favorite stories to listen to online. Dinosaur Starts School, Edwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTf48Pbq97Y Maisey Goes to Preschool, Cousins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygw4KWfi-jg Goodbye Brings Hello, White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5k1wYRFmc0 All Are Welcome, Penfold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwS3FOn4-Ow Our Class is a Family, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9NstM1Q4E  Click, Clack Quack Go to School, Cronin […]

Chapter 21:1, I saw heaven and earth new created. Gone the first heaven, gone the first earth, gone the sea.  The Message: God is all about patterns, symmetry and balance. We see it throughout God’s creation. We see it all around us as we also see, implicit in that creation, infinite love and a deep-seated […]

Transformation can be extremely frustrating. I suspect I’m not the only one who secretly, or not so secretly wants whatever change I want to see to happen NOW. I don’t want to do the hard work that the change calls for. Standing in front of the block of marble I don’t want to have to […]

Our Follow Me study this Eastertide is called Sing a New Song and psalms and/or singing songs is the spiritual practice.  Let’s go back to the beginning, a song is basically a poem set to music. And what is a poem? A poem is a word picture. So how do you write a poem? Well, […]

Happy Eastertide all you wonderful Easter People!! As we settle into the new rhythm of this time, and as we prepare ourselves for this time of discernment, Traci Smith thoughtfully offered a Spiritual Practices Guide for Eastertide -the 50 days between Easter and Pentecost. Ideally, we would have begun Easter Sunday, but I think when […]

Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s […]