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,…
Month: December 2022
The Practical Beauty of the Beatitudes: blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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 spring, our family dog passed away while lying on our dock overlooking Lake George. Blue was a dog who loved the lake and, though we live in Boston for most of the year,…
Twinkle twinkle little candle
By Esther C. Baird, First published in the Ipswich Local New 12/2/2022 Regular readers know we are early Christmas decorators. Out with the blah browns and dead leaves and in with the festive colors and sparkling lights. Speaking of light, my entire yuletide purpose, if distilled down to its essence, is to illuminate my tiny part of…