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“It’s about healing your own soul first, so that you don’t become the evil you abhor.” — Bishop Gretchen Rehberg Many attended yesterday's Spirit of America service in Cashmere. Yesterday I sat with perhaps two hundred or more others at the 9/11 Spirit of America Memorial here in Cashmere, Washington. Twenty-five years have passed since September 11, 2001. Some of us can remember exactly where we were when we first heard the news. (One of our sons was in New York; we were hor

“Look carefully at the people who are truly flourishing. They may not be the people you expected.”— A contemporary paraphrase of Jesus’ Beatitudes Enjoying food with friends after church; how would they feel about a program which called people from Kyrgyzstan our "Muslim neighbors"? I was enjoying food with a group of women after church last Sunday when our conversation turned briefly to Kyrgyzstan. John is returning tomorrow from traveling there with our neighbor Randy Smith

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes, Scottish-American...