Valerie Schultz

4 weeks ago | bakersfield.com | Valerie Schultz

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1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Valerie Schultz

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsA Reflection for Thursday of the Second Week of EasterFind today’s readings here. Today’s readings offer a pertinent progression of lessons:1. Stand up. 2. God hears you. 3. You are enough. As they build on each other, they build us up. They are exactly what we need to hear in these turbulent times—when we feel overwhelmed, when we aren’t sure of the right course, and when we are sure our puny efforts will fail.

1 month ago | bakersfield.com | Valerie Schultz

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1 month ago | bakersfield.com | Valerie Schultz

The grandmother clock is working again. Finally. I can trace my family's ownership of this particular clock to the early 1970s. The clock ticked through my teenage years, my college years, my new bride years, my young mother years, until my folks invested in a newer, grander, grandfather clock. We called the first clock the grandfather clock, although my dad would remind us that its smaller size made it officially a grandmother.

2 months ago | americamagazine.org | Valerie Schultz

My friend’s church has initiated a novel Lenten practice, which is to write a letter every day in Lent and mail it: 40 letters in 40 days. The idea is to write something positive to someone important to you—friend or family, mentor or co-worker, or even someone you admire but have never met. Halfway through Lent, I have written to my children, my siblings, old friends, relatives and some folks I admire. I had to buy more stamps. Old-school letter-writing is up my alley.