by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jun 2, 2014 | Faith Risk
‘The baiting of bulls, bears, badgers and dogs—with fireworks attached to them—was typical of the third and fourth decades of this century (England in the the 1700’s). Most of those tortures took place in public house grounds, on village greens, in village... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | May 4, 2014 | Close to Home
It’s been a wet night and I walk out onto our front porch to enjoy the dripping-freshness of early- morning. Between the bottlebrush and the other trees in our yard, flimsy little showers of rain float down at random and I wait and think and pray about the... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Apr 24, 2014 | Close to Home
Surprising wonders are often preceded by the darkest of nights. Yesterday I heard children’s voices in our front yard and my heart started to beat a little faster as I hurried toward the front door, wondering whether it was a good friend of ours (and her... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Mar 30, 2014 | Close to Home
It’s quiet in our street, and wet and still with that dripping-after-rain stillness. Birds chirp softly, the falsetto call of a pee-wee rings out across the neighbourhood, a dog barks—and much further out— the mechanical-ocean noises of the highway groan and... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Nov 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The trouble with coarse language in our prayers is that sooner or later we start to know—to really know—the one we are speaking to: we begin to see their point of view, and we are embarrassed, not so much by our language as by the attitude behind the language, which...