John's Blog

May and June are graduation months. Time to celebrate great accomplishments and the moving on to a new phase in life; new job, new school. When I reflect on the times my children graduated, I…

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My wife Jamee and I grow lots of things at our home and on our hobby farm, which we call Wyndridge. When it comes to producing food on our land, Jamee and I are learning as we go and living out…

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I wonder if like me, you have ever compared how generous you are to how generous someone else is. Every time I make a charitable gift or volunteer somewhere there is always someone else who has…

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Our rural parish, St. Phillips near our farm, is a beautiful small community of about a hundred families. Our pastor, Father Zachary, a missionary from Zimbabwe, speaks five languages and we listen…

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Why is it that we want to help the most when the least will do and feel like the most? Our elderly neighbor, Mary Lou, died recently. A childless widow, she died a pretty lonely woman. She was a…

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