Spiritual Life

Courtesy of Cathy Fitzpatrick-Platt
Julie Landreth, who teaches the marriage study “Wife Lab,” encourages members of Menlo Church’s Mothers Together group to figure out ways to make their husbands’ lives better.

Amid soaring divorce rates and highly stressed and unhappy marriages, there is a crusader – in the frame of a 5-foot-tall, curly-haired woman from the Midwest.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” wrote Albert Einstein.

Courtesy of Sara Boadwee
The Rev. Claire Dietrich Ranna began her ministry at Christ Episcopal Church of Los Altos in February.

Christ Episcopal Church of Los Altos enters a new era with the calling of the Rev. Claire Dietrich Ranna, who serves as the ninth rector of the church.

Ranna began her ministry in Los Altos in February, welcomed by both the church and its school, Ventana.

LAUMC offers caregiver support group

Los Altos United Methodist Church offers a caregiver support group for adult children of aging parents and other caregivers. The group meets 7-8:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month in the chapel, 655 Magdalena Ave.

According to organizers, the group is a safe and confidential place for children with aging parents and other caregivers to talk through challenges, explore creative means for coping with stress and share their feelings, needs and concerns.

I recently saw the movie based on the best-selling book “The Shack” (Windblown Media, 2007) by William P. Young.

The news keeps reporting that a large percentage of Americans believe that we are on the wrong track as a country.