Pastor’s Blog

I was struggling to write a blog this week.  When I would start to write it was as if every idea that was hatched would fizzle out into a whole […]

Sanity Training tip #941 – Go to the limits of your longing. You aren’t good at allowing yourself to experience life, all of life.  You won’t allow yourself to feel.  […]

I once heard it said that the greatest way to show someone love is to tell them the truth.  Very simple and very profound.  But not so easy to do.  […]

Beverly, played by Susan Sarandon in the movie Shall We Dance, was asked “Why do people get married?”  She responded, “Because we need a witness to our lives.”  In a […]

Being that this was back before the invention of cell phones, we had to rely on places where people could hang out, in order to make connections.  That place, in […]

When I was younger I would visit my grandma and grandpa in West Virginia.  These were my mother’s parents and they lived on a farm, way back in the hills.  […]

I have messed up the memorization of a Bible verse.  This mistaken identity has drastically affected the way that I not only understood what Jesus was trying to teach.  This […]

There is a little dive of a place, on the water, where we like to eat.  It is the kind of place that locals know and love.  A safe place […]

“Slowly but surely I’m seeing the beauty only.”  Sarah Haynes Do you know that what we are currently experiencing, isn’t new?  Pandemics, politics, racism, gentrification, classism, poverty, pollution, social isolation, […]

I had my nose pressed up against a brick wall during recess.  It wasn’t pressed up against a brick wall because some bully was pushing on the back of my […]