May 7, 2020: Sending Up Prayers
Today is National Day of Prayer. If you can believe it, the US Congress began this back about 70 years ago, making a day for people of all faiths to pray and meditate. It first was on July 4th in…
April 11, 2020: Mountains of Jelly Beans
Since Easter is tomorrow, let’s have a few fun facts: most years (who knows what this year is like) but usually, Americans eat 1.5 million Peeps at Easter, the factory in England that makes the Cadbury chocolate eggs makes 500…
February 8, 2020 – Color the World
In the news this week, many museums and libraries around the globe joined together to do a week of “Color Our Collections” . What they did, was make some of the art from their collections into coloring book style of…
December 7, 2019
Today in the US, it’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. In 1941, Japan attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a surprise move. Experts did not think Japan would attack Hawaii, and the base was somewhat unprepared to defend…
AM: September 26, 2019
Today is the birthday of St. Francis of Assisi who lived from 1181-1226. St. Francis was a friar, which is someone who devotes their life to God, and lives at the church. St. Francis was known for giving away all…
PM: September 23, 2019
Fun fact for the day: there are 10,080 minutes every week. so…what do you do with those 10,080 minutes? How many of those are with God? Maybe an hour in church Sunday, maybe reading this once or twice a day…maybe…
