Easter was strange this year. No new clothes, no gatherings in churches, no hugging fellow parishioners, no special dinners, no restaurants. Nothing at all except the fact that He is risen. He is risen indeed! And because there was nothing happening to distract me and nothing else to think about, that stayed with me all…
Author: Pam R
The Day Between
Mary Magdalene “I woke with the first sleepy birdsong today while the sky was still dark. For a few minutes, I just lay there, wondering why I felt so heavy and sad. “Then I remembered. He’s dead. And bitter anguish overwhelmed me again. “I don’t know how I got through yesterday, an regular day suddenly…
Gardening Wisdom
Suddenly, we are having days with warm temperatures and scented breezes, and suddenly I find myself thinking about the garden. And this year, for the first time ever, I’m thinking about … vegetables! “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” Virgil A. Kraft Everything that slows us down and forces…
From the Cat’s Eyes
Last Saturday I posted the story of The Pastor’s Cat. It’s written from the point of view of the Pastor, who failed to rescue the kitten (or did he?). Then we see the perspective of the Mother, who placed impossible conditions on God (or did she?). Then it’s through the eyes of the child, who…
Choices
Great Wisdom from the “Unknowns” Happiness and self love are moment-to-moment choices. There will inevitably be times when we don’t make them. The beautiful thing is that every moment is a new opportunity to choose again. Every moment is a chance to apply what we’ve learned. We need to have the courage to do what…
Give Us This Day…
Our Daily Bread Bread has historically been a diet staple world-wide. It is featured in religious rituals and secular culture and in the Bible, where God supplied bread, Manna, in the wilderness: So the people of Israel went out and gathered it—some getting more and some less before it melted on the ground, and there…
Second Causes
“Second cause” is an expression used in theology to distinguish between God as the ultimate cause of everything that comes to pass and the myriad smaller causes we see at work in the world. ********** I was attending a prayer-meeting held in the interests of the life of faith, when a strange lady rose to…
The Pastor’s Cat
(From my “Too good to delete” email file, dated Aug 28, 2008) Dwight Nelson recently told a true story about the pastor of his church. He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc. The kitty would not…
“Before They Call…”
My 94-year-old mother moved at the beginning of March. Her new apartment, on the top floor of the same building, is much larger. Although she approached the process with anxious trepidation, the move went about as smoothly as these things generally do. But at the end, she was left with boxes and boxes and boxes……
A Broken Remote
God is great even when things in this world are bad. His power is shown so clearly when He makes good come from even the worst situations. Unknown Something is wrong with the “remote control” of my life. The only button that works every time is “pause.” I want to “rewind” to better days, but…