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Basketball season is arriving, so let’s take a brief look at the history of this great game. Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Q: I am a 36-year-old woman and have had several bladder infections in the last year or so. Each time the symptoms started (burning, frequent urination of small amounts and sometimes some blood in the toilet bowl), within a few days, I’ve been seen either by my doctor or a nearby urgent care office, where I was given a five-day prescription for an antibiotic. That worked well within about 48 hours.

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.