How many times do you think you have washed your hands over the past two years? Especially during the pandemic – keeping things squeaky clean so that we would not help spread the virus. Way too many times to count on our fingers, right? So, lets’ put together a little equation: 365 days x 2 years x…
How many of you remember A Fish Out of Water? I know that I am dating myself here, the book was published in 1961. Written by Helen Palmer, it was based on a short story, Gustav, the Goldfish, by her husband Theodor Geisel. (Yes, that Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss!) Now Helen Palmer was a very…
Boo!!! Welcome to church on All Hallows’ Eve! Welcome to church on All Hallows’ Sunday! Hallow-ed be thy name – we pray — on the first of God’s seven days each week. Hallow-ed is a wonderful, archaic, and almost spooky word for holy. I confess to you that I am crazy about all-things All Hallows; almost as crazy as…
A few years ago, I posted this message on Facebook: “I am not a cat person. I am thinking of getting a cat.” Well, truth be told I had not ever been much of an animal person, or at least so I thought. Bailey, my youngest son’s half-Collie-half-Golden Retriever, lived out the last of his…
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There is a book in the Bible called Ecclesiastes. It is called one of the Wise Books in the Bible. It contains many helpful sayings, like little prayers, to guide us through our lives. This is very famous and beautiful one: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...…
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Two thousand years ago, Christianity was brand new. It was kind of like a start-up company. It had a very inspiring founder, Jesus, of course. The healer, the teacher, the preacher, the miracle worker, and very special Son of God. But after Jesus returned to heaven, someone had to keep this new enterprise going. It…
Life is easier in twos. Think of all of the things that come in twos: eyes ears hands arms elbows legs feet knees The easier to see and hear. Easier to run, skip, and play. Easier to write, draw, build, and create new things. All the easier to do lots of things! I bet you…
This Sunday is June 6th and Emmanuel is busting out all over!! Emerging like butterflies out of our cocoons, we are so happy! The red doors of our church are open again to all! Figuring out what I might say today, I found this wonderful new book: “A Church for All.” The beautiful rhyming story…
Once upon an Eastertide, a little boy came home singing Pete Seeger’s — The Garden Song: “Inch by inch, row by row, please, bless these seeds I sow.” (You can click here to hear Pete Seeger sing it, along with the words!) At school the little boy, along with his class, had planted bean seeds in jelly…
Have any of you ever raised chickens? Or have you visited a farm or perhaps a zoo where you might have seen a mother hen sitting on a nest of eggs? Have you ever thought about what it must be like to be a baby chick inside one of those eggs? Let’s talk about that. …
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