Last night I stood outside with two flashlights, to point them to the sky and stand for racial justice… eight minutes and 46 seconds… 9 minutes by my phone. I felt a little lonely at first, on my sidewalk that ends just before the road… dark, except the moon was full… dark and silent.. no […]
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when […]
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 v. 1: “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” And Shakespeare: “To be or not to be? That is the question…” Hamlet To be or not to be – to walk or not to walk – to read or not to read – to write or […]
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]
Tonight, I heard cats fighting… so I looked for mine inside, and didn’t see them, Then I went to the front windows to see if they were the outside cats… And I saw the most glorious golden light cast on the fields across the street. Brilliant. All consuming. All healing. All covering everything in heaven… […]
I knew a man named Paul who had been an arbitrator for union negotiations with big corporations in the sixties. Though the corporations hired him, in his heart, he looked at the workers as the ones he was serving. He often encouraged the companies to give the workers the 2 to 5 cents more an […]
“The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly” Luke 16:8 I don’t like to think God approves of us cheating one another. This scripture is a whole parable about a rich man who had heard that his business manager was embezzling his earnings (“wasting his estate;” same “wasting” as the younger brother who […]
April, 2019 “From now on, brothers and sisters, if anything is excellent and if anything is admirable, focus your thoughts on these things: all that is true, all that is holy, all that is just, all that is pure, all that is lovely, and all that is worthy of praise…The God of peace will be […]
“I lift my eyes to the hills; from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth…” Luke 3:” My first pondering, two years ago, was on this scripture. Much has happened here, for us, for Bardsdale UMC, and for me, since then. Yet, every time I look at […]
April, 2019 “…today and tomorrow I cast out demons and heal people, and on the third day, I reach my goal.” (Luke 13:32) A few weeks ago, the above scripture was within the scripture which was the basis of my sermon One More Time. The sermon was about repentance and how Christ always works […]