For Midweek Lenten Services this year we are focusing on a series of words associated with the preparation of ashes for Ash Wednesday: Gather, Burn, Crush, Sift, Mix, Pour, Bless This is from the first week, Gather. I gather the palms for burning. Gather together all the palm fronds to form a bundle. Gather them…
It is always a remarkable moment to stand here and see all of you looking back at me with the dark, cross-shaped smudges on your foreheads. It is like holding up the bread and wine at communion and seeing, in a sense, the people of God through communion; to see the body of Christ amongst…
Last Sunday of Pentecost Before Christ the King Year C Around this same time every year, I am struck by all the wonderful marks of the changing season. Leaves turning colors. Crows cawing at me in the parking lot. People talking about getting pecans for holiday baking. The air is crisp and cool. How big…
Pentecost 25C Job 19:23-27a Luke 20:27-38 I love the cover of this week’s bulletin. It is a simple image with simple phrase; simple but so full of meaning. For to him, all of them are alive! [the image to the right is NOT the image from the bulletin. at publish, I could not get a…
Pentecost 22C Genesis 32:22-31 Oscar Wilde once said, “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”. In other words, no matter how good we may be, we’ve never been perfect and no matter how many mistakes we make, we’ve got a chance, with God’s grace, to try again. There are many great…
Shepherdess Writes 