July 11, 2022

Expand

July 11, 2022/ Elsa Worth

I have learned that time spent in quiet prayer and meditation does not diminish my available time, but actually expands my day.

July 05, 2022

Love is an action verb

July 05, 2022/ Elsa Worth

Hypocrisy has been around as long as people have. Jesus used the word hypocrite in the gospels many times. And face it, we’re all prone to hypocrisy all the time.

June 20, 2022

Rest

June 20, 2022/ Elsa Worth

God, you show me the path of life. With you there is fullness of joy. It is only in you that I can rest my whole, true self - body, mind and spirit.

June 14, 2022

Deserve

June 14, 2022/ Elsa Worth

Remember that passage when Jesus said it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? All his disciples were shocked! What? If a wealthy person is not right with God, who is? Their assumption was that prosperity indicated God’s favor.

June 06, 2022

Thinking

June 06, 2022/ Elsa Worth

Theologians have been discussing and writing about the Trinity for centuries, and we are no further ahead on agreeing or understanding what the it really is.

May 02, 2022

Trouble

May 02, 2022/ Elsa Worth

I would love it if just once in my life I’d be able to prepare a meal that everyone in my family loved and thoroughly enjoyed.

April 18, 2022

Vast

April 18, 2022/ Elsa Worth

I love the Breton Fisherman’s prayer that begins, ‘O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.’ There is something both terrifying and very comforting about how small we are compared with the alpha and omega of all there is and ever will be.

February 28, 2022

First Fruits

February 28, 2022/ Elsa Worth

Today is Ash Wednesday - the first day of Lent 2022. The first day of your big opportunity to re-prioritize the spiritual fruits of your own life.

January 17, 2022

Exile/Return

January 17, 2022/ Elsa Worth

After 70 years away, how could Jerusalem possibly be the same?

January 10, 2022

Light

January 10, 2022/ Elsa Worth

Seeing, feeling, perceiving, hearing, tasting. Epiphany is an embodied season - a season of Christ’s incarnation coming home into our own bodies and selves.

December 28, 2021

Open Hearts

December 28, 2021/ Elsa Worth

When we see or hear something beyond our expectations, we often say things like “I can’t believe my eyes!” or “I can’t believe what I’m hearing!”

December 20, 2021

Authority

December 20, 2021/ Elsa Worth

We pray for those in authority because power can so easily corrupt and one’s highest ideals can so easily take a back seat.

November 29, 2021

Prayers

November 29, 2021/ Elsa Worth

Whenever Paul prays for one of the early churches in his letters, I like to think about how he is praying for us also.

November 22, 2021

Both/And

November 22, 2021/ Elsa Worth

Advent keeps us on our toes, and its meant to. It’s the season in which we’re told to keep awake. To stay alert. To watch, and wait and trust that nothing is impossible with God. These are all no small feats in a world in which on many days it seems like a better idea to go hide our heads under our pillows!

November 08, 2021

Apocalypse

November 08, 2021/ Elsa Worth

Just this Sunday and the next separate us from a new year and a new season of Advent, and you can tell Advent is near when the readings turn all apocalyptic.

November 01, 2021

Hunger

November 01, 2021/ Elsa Worth

For some, potato chips are not a junk food treat to avoid like they are for me, but a meal that is available and affordable and at least fills an empty stomach.

October 25, 2021

God's Commandments

October 25, 2021/ Elsa Worth

The annoying aunt. The loudly partying neighbor. The disrespectful teenager. The crooked politician. These neighbors are often downright hard to love - just how are you supposed to do that?

October 11, 2021

Return

October 11, 2021/ Elsa Worth

Many of us experience a sense of return each week when we come together for worship on Sunday mornings - coming back to be with the people we know and love and who love and support us, hearing the familiear prayers, the music, the exploration of Scripture, and of course, the communion table.