Russellings of the Spirit

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  • More candles… more seeds

    I’d like to ask you to pause just for a moment and think about your home.  Not just the house you live in. But everything else that causes you to call it HOME.  What do you like about it? What… Continue reading

  • Hope for the Hopeless

    Here we are, at the end of August. In the universe of organized sports, this moment is a bit of an inflection point.  Basketball and hockey are still in hibernation for a while. (But seriously, does anyone care?) College football starts today… Continue reading

  • “We’re All In This Together!”

    Yes, we are. But in lots of ways, no, we absolutely are not. This morning on NPR I heard the story of Daniel Garcia of Houston, Texas. (https://www.npr.org/2020/07/18/892593769/texas-man-on-what-its-like-being-evicted-during-the-covid-19-pandemic). And it broke me. Garcia is 46 years old. He was laid… Continue reading

  • An Innocent Man

    In 1984, a drug dealer was shot to death at a gas station in St. Louis, Missouri. The shooter was identified as a light-skinned African American male, 5’5” in height. Police immediately began looking for suspects. Even though Darryl Burton was… Continue reading

  • An Amazing Rescue

    I can’t even imagine what that must have been like. There you are; riding your bike home from a soccer practice when someone in the group suggests that you turn off the road and head into a nearby local park.… Continue reading