Second Church Steps

Spelling is not my strong suit.   In college I had to convince my Russian Language professor that yes, I studied for my weekly vocabulary quiz.   It wasn’t that I didn’t try to learn the words.   I can’t spell in four languages! Two sets of words I can spell, in English, are “desert/dessert” and “angel/angle.” I learned them with the help of very good teachers in elementary school.   An “angel” is Ever Lasting versus an “angle” that is LEft or right.   A “dessert” is something of which you would like SecondS; a “desert” you only want one.   That teaching tool only works so far.   I have found myself in more than one desert; so whether I like it or not, deserts seems to come in seconds (and thirds). Luckily, however, there are angels—messengers of God. God sent a tree in the desert to shelter Jonah.  From "An Invitation to the Desert."   Some of the families at Second Church are wandering in the desert with a family spiritual practice called, “An Invitation to th