I’m pretty sure I could have caused some significant damage if I hadn’t been seeing a dang good chiropractor of late… when the opposing team ran onto the field at last week’s Solon High School football game, the two young kids next to me started hollering “boo” at the top of their lungs and my neck [...]
Archive for the ‘musings’ Category
The Early Beginnings of Civility
Posted in community, musings, parenting, politics on September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m Boss of My Body
Posted in family, musings on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We were enjoying a lovely afternoon at the pool after a very fine day tasting wine in the Santa Ynez Valley. Lots of laughs between Jeff and K2 while I enjoyed reading Take this Bread on my Kindle. We swapped dinner ideas with some folks who were enjoying the hot tub. It was a picture [...]
3 Books You Should Read
Posted in books, musings on June 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m on a bit of a reading binge this summer. K2 is doing the summer reading program through our county library and I’ve decided to re-live my childhood and do the same. I keep a list of what I read on this blog that I’m sure every single one of my five readers have perused. In [...]
What’s Your Image of “Church?”
Posted in faith, musings, tagged big tent, church, el campesino, pioneer church on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If it’s Thursday it must be El Campesino. It started well before our arrival and has grown over the last few years. Now you’ll find 20-40 Pioneer folks gathered in a room set-aside by the owner. Chips, salsa, and margaritas flow. Folks who have never touched mexican food in their lives and could probably do without it have joined the [...]
Memorial Day and Being a Pastor
Posted in faith, musings, tagged memorial day, pastor on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I receieved a frantic phone call on Friday: “The pastor who was suppose to pray on Monday had surgery for throat cancer. Do you know anyone who could come?” “Would they mind a woman?”, was my response, trying to be sensitive to expectations (and maybe hoping Jeff would go instead!).
I am glad I went. I’m [...]
Gratitude for the South
Posted in faith, musings, tagged Amy-Jill Levine, Great Emergence, the South on May 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had a wonderful time in Nashville this last week with eleven amazing women. We studied with Amy-Jill Levine, read the Great Emergence, ate some wonderful meals, laughed until our sides ached, cried with and for one another, prayed, and renewed our souls. It was pure gift. It was an honor to be included and [...]
Violence and the Cross
Posted in faith, musings on May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never been one to wear a cross. I have a handful of them in my dresser that have been gifts to me on various occasions. Partly, it is because I’m not much of a jewelry person. A greater part of it is what that cross means and how it has been usurped by Christians [...]
40 Prayers of Hope and Gratitude
Posted in PCUSA, musings on May 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the PCUSA and a colleague from past Montreat events is celebrating 40 tomorrow and offered a challenge to his readers to make a list of 40 things for which you are grateful, gives you hope or are in need of God’s healing. Since it has been a few months since I made [...]
A reminder…
Posted in musings, poetry, tagged Hafiz, hope, light, resurrection on April 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
from I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy by Hafiz
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!
This I Believe – Reflections on the Journey
Posted in faith, musings, sermons, tagged community, Easter, Expression of Faith, Lent, parker palmer, Statement of Faith, This I Believe on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It has been a wonderful Lenten journey and now, on the other side of Resurrection Sunday, I am finding my soul nourished by the expressions of faith so many in our congregation shared with such beauty and power.
Long before we became pastors of this church we began a list of dreams we hoped to use someday when [...]
