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This week’s topic for reflection is coming home. Home is a place where we feel safe, comfortable, familiar and welcome. Even dealing with difficult change, being at home this change seems easier to manage. We know who we are here and our place or role. To “Make yourself at home.” means be yourself and relax as if you own the place. Some people are at home traveling around, meeting new people and discovering new ways to live. Their home seems to be everywhere. Perhaps they live in a boat...

This week’s topic for reflection is anchors. Where do you put down your anchor? I was recently told that large ships entering the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean pause there and put down one anchor off their bow. When the tide comes in the ships swing around and face the ocean. When the tide returns out to sea they swing around to face inland. Anchored yet free to flow with the changing tide. As things keep changing, where is your anchor? What do you use as an anchor and what do you...

This week’s topic for reflection is resistance. A few decades ago when I was a plumber, the new technology was the pager. I’d be driving along in my truck and my pager would go off with a phone number. Because we didn’t have cell phones yet I’d look around for a pay phone to call the number. The technology was just getting going and I was already having difficulty with it. Now it feels like the technology is trying to get control over more and more aspects of my life. I have strong resistance...