May 19-25, 2021
Often when I arrive at the church and walk through the parking lot I remember with gratitude the beautiful Easter worship service many of us shared together at the beginning of April. For some, it was your first time back to the physical church building. It brought joy to my heart to see many of […]
Read postMay 11-18, 2021
“With God for the world.” This is one way M. Robert Muholland, Jr. describes the spiritual journey in his book The Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self. This is a book I read during Lent, and I keep quoting it because it really had an impact on me!! “With God for the […]
Read postMay 5-11, 2021
The good news of God is a simple message but it is also complex. Our journeys through Luke this Lenten season have highlighted this truth. As we get closer to Pentecost, we are reminded that we are empowered by the Spirit of God to be the sharers of God’s good news. My favorite way of […]
Read postApril 27 – May 4, 2021
This past Sunday I shared a lament, a blog post written by Cyneatha Millsaps (pastor at Prairie Street Mennonite Church and Executive Director of Mennonite Women USA). She speaks vividly from her heart about her conflicted feelings about Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict because of her experience as an African American woman with our criminal justice […]
Read postApril 21-27, 2021
This has been an eventful and weighty week in our nation. The guilty verdict in Minneapolis in the death of George Floyd marks an important step toward justice. And, there is a long road ahead of us to uproot the violence and brutality disproportionately inflicted upon people with black and brown skin in our country. […]
Read postApril 6, 2021
Tangible reminders of our shared Easter worship this past Sunday are bringing joy this week! Roses and tulips from the cross fill our kitchen and dining room with color. Joanna’s marigold in a teacup smiles up at me. The sunburn I got I’m not so grateful for, but I was so happy for the sunshine […]
Read postMarch 31-April 6, 2021
“Do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.” Deuteronomy 15:7 Welcome to Holy Week and Passover 2021! I am thinking about Passover and the plagues and Pharaoh being hard-hearted. The “pass-over” was the final of the ten plagues, as the angel of death “passed over” the homes that had a sign of mercy. […]
Read postThis Week @ FMC March 24-30, 2021
“I want to see again!” These the words erupted out of the blind man when he drew near to Jesus, to the heart of God (Luke 18). There are so many stories in the gospels of Jesus healing the blind, breathing new life into the impossible. John 9 holds what is probably my favorite story […]
Read postMarch 17-23, 2021
During Lent we journey with Jesus to the cross, because that is where he is going. On the way we’ve witnessed and been challenged by: LOVE MOVING (the parable of the Good Samaritan); HEARTS TURNING (parable of the fig tree & Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem); COMMUNITY REJOICING (Parable of the Lost Sheep, Coin, and Sons); […]
Read postMarch 10-16, 2021
Have mercy upon us, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out our transgressions. Create in us clean hearts, O God, put a new and right spirit within each of us. Restore to us the joy of your salvation and sustain in us willing spirits. (from Psalm 51) Create […]
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