Nancy Springer

We Belong; We’re Beloved

We are human. We see others and the world around us from our perspective, as we are. It takes intentional effort to learn to ask, “what am I choosing not to see?” so that we can better see things as they are.

With Jesus

With Jesus, we belong because of who we already are: beloved children of God.

Belonging from Within

When we discover our sense of belonging from the image of God within us, our whole identity isn’t shattered when we let go of our connection (either willingly or forced) to a particular group because we have set our vision on godly things instead of human things. We are God’s beloved children, God’s people, and that can never be destroyed. We have been given the everlasting gift of belonging through Jesus.

Second Choice

As human beings we are created with a need to belong because we are created by the ultimate community of God, Three in One, inseparable yet distinct. This sense of belonging is critical to our wellbeing. Way back when as I was in conversation with my bishop about where I’d go to seminary, I visitedContinue reading “Second Choice”

Look and Live

Good Monday, my friends. As we step into this week, what are you hoping for? Is your view of the world coming into focus through the lens of God’s kingdom? In one of our ancient faith stories (we read this bit of it yesterday in our worship service), God’s people have a snake problem. GodContinue reading “Look and Live”

Life and Love

Love, as God loves, is the only thing that can change the world. This love is the source of life, the bread of life that Jesus gives us. This love is what we are created from and for.

Bigger than Ourselves

The stories of our faith ancestors aren’t intended to confine us or restrict us to “the way we’ve always done it” but are gifts we use to expand our thinking and our vision as we grow into who God created us to be.

Asking Why

In the stories of our most ancient faith ancestors, God instructs them to conduct festivals and feasts so that they and their children and their children’s children will remember certain things: remember who God is, remember who they are, remember all that God has done for them. When Jesus instructs the disciples during the last meal he eats with them, he says to do what he’s shown them in order to remember.

Contained

All that we do in our form of worship is to equip us to be God’s people and reveal God’s love to the world. … Do you ever find yourself feeling like you left the benefits of the sacrament contained in a box at the church door?

Toward Normal

Why do we say “back to normal”? Can’t normal be in front of us? Over the past year as just about everything I thought I knew about anything changed, I’ve been training myself to use typical or regular instead of normal. The word normal seems stuck in time, immoveable, riveted in place. Perhaps it isContinue reading “Toward Normal”