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When you think about winter, what comes to mind? Likely, colder weather, shorter days, less sunshine, trees with no leaves, a slower pace of daily life and more time to do … nothing. Because of these things, you may also think of sadness, loneliness and internal discomfort that can stem from not having the external “distraction” of the nicer summery weather and all of the fun things summer brings with it.

Last time, we looked at the geography of prayer. We don’t send our prayers off to a distant God in heaven. The word for “heaven” in our passage is plural in the Gospel’s original language. It’s “heavens,” which is also our word for sky. God inhabits the invisible space all around us. God is as close to us as the air we breathe.

Q: I am a 64-year-old woman and had some blood drawn for cholesterol testing about a week ago. An assistant in my doctor’s called with my results a few days later, but she was talking so fast, I really couldn’t understand much, other than that I might have to start taking medication to lower my cholesterol at some point in the future.

There was a large group of people. On one side of the group stood Jesus.

An early look at some film gave Munising girls volleyball head coach Josh Cole a good feeling on how to beat Norway. The Mustangs proved his premonition to be true, as they took down the Knights in straight sets on Tuesday, Oct. 29 — 25-14, 25-16 and 25-6 — and much of it was thanks to their steady serving.

In the recently completed regular season, the Superior Central girls volleyball team twice defeated Rapid River by a 3-1 margin. So when the bracket was released for the Division 4 district tournament being played this week in Munising, and the Cougars saw they were scheduled to face Rapid River in the first round on Monday night, perhaps they expected another comfortable victory.