In this week of recalling events from the past year and the past decade I remembered a story from about two years ago. It was something that involved all of us who live in this area of the country. I was thinking about the drought of 2007, the worst drought in over a hundred years…
This past July, I had an experience I will never forget. My daughter Rebecca and I had a chance to go, just the two of us, to the Kennedy Space center in Florida. We went there for about four full days. We saw everything you could possibly see at the Kennedy Space Center; we went on every tour you could go on. There are a couple of experiences from that trip I would like to share with you tonight…
According to the parish website, our liturgy this morning is a contemplative celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Now in my experience and perhaps some of yours, a contemplative eucharist can mean several things. It can mean perhaps candles and incense; it can mean Celtic music, or music from, say, the Taize community in France, or it can mean no music at all…
I remember being in 7th or 8th grade of our public school music class learning the song “Let There Be Peace On Earth”. You may remember the second phrase of this song, “…and let it begin with me”…
Do you hate to clean house? You’re not alone. But every so often it needs to be done. Maybe something you need is buried under the morass of paper or clothes tossed carelessly aside as you run in and out, day after day, and you just have to find that thing. Or you might have received word that dear old Aunt Tillie, and her white glove is due for a visit…
“Breathe!” Did you ever have someone say that to you? “Breathe!” It usualy comes at a time when you’re not breathing too well. You’re stressed out, you’re worried about something, your anxiety level is rising, you’re actually breathless, and someone says, “breathe!” I’ve heard that said a few times to me, “breathe!”
At one point in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell describes the state of heightened awareness that police officers feel in moments when they have to burst through a door into a hallway or a building or a house where they feel like their life is going to be in danger…
My homily this morning has two interrelated and somewhat overlapping components: a teaching component and a preaching component. Since today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, I want to begin my message by saying a few words about the church calendar…
Jesus was definitely a person of wisdom. And part of that wisdom had to do, I think, with Jesus’ ability to not think in kind of a dualistic way. In other words, Jesus was not someone who saw the world in either ors: either this or that. But Jesus was much more able to see the world in terms of this and that…
This morning is the one year (exact to the date) anniversary of Care n Share’s Hand Blessing Service. And therefore this is going to be the second annual day of thanksgiving for the Care n Share ministry. It is indeed a day of thanksgiving for all of you, for all of our volunteers who care so well for one another…