I figured I had better give a little insight into what I was saying in the post from this morning. Or maybe what motivated it, since there were questions. Last night was the first time I saw my Confirmation class since Covid 19 hit. I spent an hour and a half trying to express what…
To keep it going…this whole Lent thing. Today I am told in scripture to “pray for my enemies and those who persecute you” but that isn’t really what I want to do. I want to be angry. I want to lash out. I want people to feel what they have done to me or to…
It’s happening again, that time when we decide who will lead this country. With it comes the finger pointing and impatience with other people’s points of view, perhaps not as badly yet as 2016, but this is only the beginning. For me, this period is torture. I hear (and sometimes partake) in disparaging, I cannot…
I still have John Michael Talbot playing in my car. Which means that every day I am reciting this Psalm 51. Everyday, there is a new reason why I need to sing it. Some days I find myself in tears as I consider God’s divine mercy and my glaring faults. At times, most times, only…
Today is Ash Wednesday which means it is the beginning of Lent. In some ways my whole world revolves around the liturgical seasons, they help me make sense out of a confusing world. I am not so easily drawn into the chaos of things, be it society or nature, because I have this “safety net”…
It has been coming on for some time now, a need to break away from my norm and hunker down into a more cloistered world. More of a dream than a probability as I am still raising children and still working in a social environment. But more and more I feel that I have not…
It is and isn’t what you think. Yes, January is by far my hardest month of the year and I am coping as I generally do, watching and reading Jane Austen and theology books while knitting scarves. Only scarves. That is all I knit. But I am trying to purl again! I am also trying…
“ Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.“ As usual I dropped the ball this Advent. I tried to focus myself but things kind of spiraled and in the end my words would have felt empty and my showing up rote. I wanted this Advent to be more than that. I…
Our parish Adult Education committee chose “All Creation Waits” by Gayle Boss as it’s Advent Study. I decided to join the group discussion last night as I have been taken with the book. I find that it slows me down and for a short while takes me inside the life of the animals I mostly…
“Whatever was written previously was written for our instruction,that by endurance and by the encouragement of the Scriptureswe might have hope. ” Rom 15:4 This summer my husband was determined to get us all up to a mountain. I hadn’t been for several years due to an injury and I was eager to go too….