Category Archives: Pondering

If you’ve ever attended an Episcopal worship service, you will have witnessed what we call “Passing the Peace,” a part of the service when we move from hearing and reflecting on God’s word to gathering at God’s table to give thanks and receive the gift of Holy Communion. In some churches, folks stand in theirContinue reading “Peace”

I love to play Scrabble. There’s just something exciting to me about the possibility of the words to be found, the anticipation as I watch what my companion spells out and discovering how I can build on that, and the revealing of the layout of all the words in an interconnected pattern created by ourContinue reading “Scrabble Theology”

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” ― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle Here’s hearty and hardy question for us to ponder: How can we makeContinue reading “Further up and Further in”

It’s been a difficult week for words. I want nothing more than to speak peace and comfort into the anxiety and pain so many of us are collectively experiencing but I’m not sure I have the right words. I do know that regardless if the results of this election week are what you want themContinue reading “Gratitude and Community”

I woke up with this song in my head this morning. When I hear it, I imagine pelicans flying along the waves of the ocean and I’m fairly certain the connection between this song and that scene comes from Jurassic Park, but that has absolutely no bearing on what I’m going to write about hereContinue reading “Is It I, Lord?”

In this season in which we find ourselves, as we are beginning to restructure how we do most everything in light of the pandemic and as we stand in long lines to vote (don’t let the long lines or the news or false rumors about voter fraud discourage you – VOTE! You do matter andContinue reading “God Created and Loves…”

Originally posted on March 30, 2020 We’ve all been given this beautiful gift of disruption. It may not look beautiful on the outside. Our schedules had been completely undone. Our security seems to have left us. What we thought we had under control is in chaos. Life doesn’t feel beautiful or gift like or goodContinue reading “The Gift of Disruption”

Originally posted on February 8, 2020 “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in yourContinue reading “Seeing Clearly”