I Was Baptized!

Yesterday, I had the privilege of baptizing three children. Two different families, neither of them with a connection to the congregation I am serving, aside from geographic. Both families, in my conversations with them, expressed their desire for their children to be baptized, as a way of belonging to something greater than themselves. I encouraged…

Friday Five – busy, busy, busy

Yes, it is a busy season in the church year… although after 11 years of ministry, I am still searching for that illusory ‘not-busy’ time. Over at Revgals, the Friday Five is all about the changing seasons. What sums up Autumn – or Fall – or Spring if you’re in the southern hemisphere –  in…

Fear, Joy and Gratitude

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life… He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and…