So, 2024 did not go as planned. From the devastation of Hurricane Helene doing far more property damage than can be repaired in the foreseeable future, to changing vocations to work as a chaplain with a different company and various crises that popped in and out of our lives, 2024 saw Ta Ethne on the back burner.

We enter 2025 filled with optimistic expectations. A blog a week is the goal – 52 hopefully helpful essays that will run the gamut from inspirational to informative and maybe even inquisitive. With new, added responsibilities in work life this is ambitious, but I feel necessary to continue the work.

So many have reached out to encourage me to write another book. Maybe, just maybe, 2025 will let us catch our breath long enough to begin the process of note taking, compiling and beginning a rough draft. If one has suggestions on a particular topic, shoot us an email.

Remember, no matter how dark it may seem, Christ’s light banishes the darkness. Perhaps, as dark as 2024 was for so many, it was fitting for the year to end with Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah to both be on the same day.

God bless you with His grace