By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org When you are coming onto Silver Bay’s campus you know because at each entrance there is a big wooden sign with the Silver Bay logo of the Inn at sunset. There is one at…
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The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God
Posted on March, 2023 by Esther Baird By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org At Silver Bay, we place a great priority on the clean water of Lake George. My family’s camp just north of the Bay has water lines that go directly into…
The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy
By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org Last summer I had the opportunity to lead evening Vespers a few times. It’s a great way to connect to the people on campus at Silver Bay and to hear some fantastic music by…
The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org Over the years our two girls have been involved in a variety of ways at Silver Bay. They’ve been kids at Silver Camp, program members going to sailing and art classes, and most…
The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org If you’ve been to Lake George in the winter, perhaps snowshoeing at Silver Bay, or simply happy to stay inside by a roaring fire, you know that when the lake finally freezes over,…
The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
By Esther C. Baird, as written for the Silver Bay Spiritual Life Center, Silver Bay, NY. To subscribe to the mailing please email: pastoralrespite@silverbay.org Good Morning, It was a perfect summer day (like most days were this last summer). I sat on our family dock looking south to Silver Bay’s Slim Point two coves away. I could see the…
Best Summer Ever
First published in the Tri-Town Transcript July 25, 2019 By Esther C. Baird Well it’s mid-summer. We spend most of our time over on Lake George in the Adirondacks at our family camp and neighboring YMCA conference center down the road where we work, volunteer, swim, boat and repeat. And so when, on the very…
Deep Lake Diving ‘Poparazzi’ Style
First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript Aug 12, 2016 By Esther C. Baird It’s currently 95 as I type this, and even my Grande Iced Americano is not making a dent in the heat. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Summer is the land of the happy and unscheduled. We’ve been spending much of…
Fueled by Fluff and Sunshine
Fueled by Fluff and Sunshine By Esther C. Baird/tritown@wickedlocal.com First Published in the Tri-Town Transcript August 8, 2013 I recently spent two weeks over on Lake George in the Adirondacks where, Regular Readers may recall, we have a family camp. It’s rustic and falling apart in many places and often buggy in a way that…
Following the Ladle Home
This was first published in the spring of 2005 in the magazine Adirondack Life, but I no longer have an electronic version so this is what I believe is a [nearly] final version before it went to print. Apologies for any mistakes/typos, they are mine not ALs. _____________ Simply fly to the “second star on…