Prayer
/Since our church is called St. James, I still feel affinity to the writer of the letter of James, even though he’s likely a different St. James than our own. And his advice to us this Sunday is to pray.
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/We’ve probably all said awful things about another person from time to time, even if only under our breath. We know what it feels like to have said something that hurt another. We sometimes embellish and boast, color the truth and lie, spurt out things that were better left unsaid and just generally put our foot in it all too often.
Read MoreAn Abundance of Bread
/Last Sunday the gospel reading was about the feeding of the 5000. This week, we get the story of God raining bread on the people every day in the wilderness. The theme of God’s abundance is definitely in the air.
Read MoreProtection
/I hardly want to open the paper just lately, with all the fires and droughts and floods and variants and attacks on voting rights, etc. If I had my way, these things would not happen. I suspect you would make changes in the world, too, if it were in your power to do so. But it’s not.
Read MoreInterruptions
/Reading this Sunday’s gospel, it strikes me that Jesus’ usual day was much like a new mom’s day - constantly interrupted by unexpected needs.
Read MoreYes, I will
/My mother would sometimes say to me as a moody teenager, “What are you waiting for? An engraved invitation?”
Read MoreBaby Steps
/Well, if you’d told me a mere year and a half ago that the entire world would soon struggle with a pandemic that would kill millions of people, interrupt the world economy, disrupt our community and close our church building, and that we would worship on an online meeting platform called Zoom for over a year, well, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Read MoreWho is prevented?
/Please note: I rarely write directly about current political issues in this blog. Today is an exception, in case you’d rather not go there.
Many of you know that these issues are close to my own heart, after having had a transgender daughter who died of suicide at age 18.
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