Tracy Springberry

Next month, Americans will celebrate the birth of an Middle Eastern baby, born to poor destitute parents who were on the road with only the possessions they could carry.

When the Making Caring Common Project, a program at Harvard, surveyed 10,000 youth, 80 percent said achievement and happiness were their life priorities. Only 20 percent said being caring was a priority.

Most of us, this time of year, head through the gateway of Thanksgiving and arrive, just as Milo did, in the Land of Expectations.

Our experience of cold is relative, as is our experience of the rest of our lives. What can feel like real hardship and pain to one person can feel like a light blow to another.

This month they opened a freeway interchange that funnels cars from the Cheney-Spokane Road onto 195, a four-lane, high-speed highway.

Whenever we give joyfully and freely of what we have, whether that is time, money, or skills, we are being generous.

Tracy Springberry is a Unitarian Universalist minister. She serves the North Idaho Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, as well serves as a traveling minister to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska.