Wondering Presbyterian

            I’ve been enjoying a new app on my phone called “Good News Network.” The news is exhausting. I try to stay a little bit on top of what’s going on locally, nationally, and globally. Not much of it sounds good; at least, not the way they write the news these days. I read about this Good News Network in a magazine that I read and immediately put it on my phone. The app gives a daily article of good news. You can look up good news articles from around the nation and the globe, too. An article from May 15, for example, talked about a dental hygienist student who almost had to drop out of school because of her color blindness. The focus of the story was on her classmates who acted in love to set up a GoFundMe page that raised money for special color corrective glasses. Now the girl can both stay in school and follow her dream ( https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/colorblindness-almost-cost-student-career-until-classmates-helped/ ).             It helps to find things that inspi

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” – Exodus 3:5 I’m in a purgy mood. Usually what this means is that I have cabin fever from the weather being less than stellar. When I stay inside for too long, I start looking around and thinking about all the things I could be getting rid of. My friend calls this “nesting:” the constant need to rearrange your space because you simply need to do something . And when the weather is rainy (as it has been for what seems like always lately), I do a lot of nesting (much to my husband’s chagrins).             My purgy mood has carried over into my office as well. As per my friend’s suggestion (the same one who calls it nesting), I started with magazines. I have a lot of denominational magazines that come through my office mail and sit on my shelf. I usually skim through them and put them on the shelf, thinking I’ll read through them when I have more time. This doesn’t