Too Many Directions

Things have evened off in my family in recent days, just in time for me to get into sermon prep mode once again. The gospel text for this week is Luke 8:26-39 - the healing of the demon-possessed man … Read more...

Time Marches On…

Yesterday, my 'baby' turned 35. I truly don't know how this is possible. At some moments, it does seem like yesterday that we discovered a third baby was on the way. This was not a planned pregnancy … Read more...

Blogging Resistance

It's hard for me to get out here and write anything on this weird website when life is crazy. Things happen to me and in me that I'd like to write about, but wonder just who might read it and what … Read more...

Ascension

Say what? I'm preaching again, for the first time in 9 weeks, and I'm acutely conscious of how very rusty I am - especially when the assigned topic is the ascension...something I've never studied in … Read more...

Ashes…

Today is Ash Wednesday. We held a small, intimate service at midday, maybe 30 people came. Dan played the guitar beautifully, everyone sang so well and the space was welcoming. Jeanne and Alice set up … Read more...

Extravagant Giving, Part II

Warren Thompson was one of those rare people God gives us in life. People with a quiet, Jesus-like authority, with no hypocrisy showing up anywhere, no interest in recognition, or ostentation of any … Read more...

Extravagant Giving

The text for this Sunday includes the story of the widow's mite - the gift of everything that our observant Savior watched from his perch near the offering 'trumpets' in the Court of the Women in the … Read more...

Working Toward Retreat…

It's been almost a full year since I've done any speaking or teaching for a women's group of any kind. For a while there, I was doing something with and for women on a regular basis - I facilitated a … Read more...

Friends

Last night I found a note from a good friend in my e-box. Someone I've missed since she took another job halfway across the country 18 months ago. Someone with whom I had found common ground here in … Read more...