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Available from Four Seasons Books, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

  • You are holding in your hands a collection of inspiring essays.They are a personal, intimate narrative journey through time and place. They offer us compelling insights, lucid, engrossing observations on life, work, faith, politics and home.“Sometimes you have to leave home to find it.” This is an immensely enjoyable book that celebrates a 40 year journey of honest and necessary reflections.

    — Ed Herendeen
    Founder, Contemporary American Theater Festival
  • In these beautifully written and inspiring essays Tremba shares his understanding of the world and of humanity. Weaving personal stories, poetry, and history with insight, brilliance, and compassion he reveals the brokenness in us and in the world. But, there is hope. As he writes, love can save us.

    — Hope Maxwell Snyder
    Poet in Residence, Shepherd University
  • There is no better treat for the mind and soul than a dose of loving wisdom. I know that from my own experience as a regular reader of Tremba’s essays in the GOOD NEWS PAPER. They are always good news. Put together in this book makes them even more special—helpful and delectable.

    — Jim Lehrer
    Author and Journalist

Selected Essays from Let Love Arise

This Little Light of Mine

This Little Light of Mine

May 22, 2019

June 2019 (2 years after retirement) Lately, I’ve been thinking about writing. About missing it, actually. For 40 years before […]

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The three most popular nonprescription drugs are alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Each is harmful to the body and each creates social problems. Of the three, alcohol and tobacco are proven killers. Of those two, tobacco kills only its user (although secondhand smoke is no minor health hazard to others).

Tobacco does not fuel violence toward others.

Nor does pot.

Only alcohol does.

Reefer Madness

May 27, 2015

The three most popular nonprescription drugs are alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Each is harmful to the body and each creates social problems. Of the three, alcohol and tobacco are proven killers. Of those two, tobacco kills only its user (although secondhand smoke is no minor health hazard to others).

Tobacco does not fuel violence toward others.

Nor does pot.

Only alcohol does.

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Have you seen that bedraggled man outside of town with the sign: “HELP ME”? I don’t know about you, but that guy bugs me!

That guy bugs me, and Jesus bugs me, too. Jesus bugs me, this I know... (Could be a new song there!) 

Jesus Bugs Me

December 1, 2013

Have you seen that bedraggled man outside of town with the sign: “HELP ME”? I don’t know about you, but that guy bugs me!

That guy bugs me, and Jesus bugs me, too. Jesus bugs me, this I know… (Could be a new song there!) 

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Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around my world most every Sunday morning.

Read more about the devil’s role in my life in “This Little Light of Mine” under Let Love Arise in the menu bar.

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THE GOD QUESTION

THE GOD QUESTION

January 29, 2023

Suddenly the door burst open. Audrey (not her real name) stomped in, leaned against the wall, folded her arms across her chest, and glared. At me, at the room, at the world.

WHAT IS PRAYER?

WHAT IS PRAYER?

January 22, 2023

There’s no empirical evidence to prove prayer works. And yet we still pray.

KING PRAYED

KING PRAYED

January 15, 2023

King prayed. But the "Serenity Prayer" was not his kind of prayer.

SERENITY IN THE NEW YEAR

SERENITY IN THE NEW YEAR

January 8, 2023

I first heard of New Year’s resolutions in high school. Several classmates were making a list. I made a list and happily told my parents. They frowned.

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