h I found out yesterday that the house I grew up in burned to the ground. It was a beautifully constructed old farmhouse. The woodwork was beautiful throughout the entire house, with built-in cabinetry throughout the house – stuff that you just don’t see made any more. Some of the walls had been painted years…
Who is Missing
Last week while on vacation, I got to spend a lot of time with my neice and nephew. My neice is three and my nephew is almost seven years old. And whenever you spend so much time around little ones, you are guaranteed to hear the cutests and darndest things. As we began to make…
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P.S. I hate that I only get 145 characters in a mobile post.
omniscient
At a meeting, it hit me how facebook changed our world, when we knew where others had been & been doing fromstatus updates. Good or bad? Discuss.
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just had meeting re: young adult ministry. that + my time away has me thinking about ministry and my introvert tendencies. Praying for courage!
Lectionary Leanings
I’m hearing Romans call to me this week. Every time we gather around the communion table (this Sunday, being the first Sunday for us), I say something about looking around and noticing who is not at the table with us today – either by choice, because of illness, or because we haven’t invited them. I…
Updated “Back to the Basics” Fall Plan
,I’ve gotten some inspiration on the alphabet thing… The overall theme is going to be ” Back to the Basics of Being the Church” (we made BE the CHURCH t-shirts earlier in the year). I’m also going to be tying in some of Robert Schnasse’s ideas from “Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations” – but not…
a new seed has been planted
I desperately needed to get away. I needed to clear my head and spend some time with my hubby. I needed to pull myself back far enough from all the ins and outs of the church to think about the big picture of what I’m supposed to be doing there (because – after 6 months,…