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Sunday Meditation There is something to be said for being humble. It’s hard. Each day we try to make our voice heard able the mountainous voices all shouting for attention. And we, as part of our human nature, want to be heard. We want to be valued, loved and honored but most of all weContinue reading “Valued and Heard”

“But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand withoutContinue reading “Building Up”

I reach for my the toes on my left foot.  The slight  numbness encircling the toes, creating a sense of distance and the inability to sense,to feel…anything.   I am reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.  This is my simple take on the first two chapters, -A  new people come to aContinue reading “Numb”

1 John 3:19—4:6 (NRSV) Word————- By this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receiveContinue reading

cts 9:1-6(7-20) (NRSV) Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he wasContinue reading ““Paul! What are you doing?””

So, it’s a Saturday after and I am sitting in an office interviewing a priest. It’s part of the discernment process. Instead of drinking wine with my friends, I am asking questions. Do you have a call? A call to be something more? Of course, it there is not something to go towards, what isContinue reading “So….I am really going to do this?”

1 Samuel 1:10-11, 20 (NRSV) Hannah was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly. She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set himContinue reading “Hannah, Hannah”

One step at a time toward the goal of inner strength, constant faith, and abiding love.