Good Morning Friends! We are making a change on the blog *drum roll please* The Wednesday Festival is moving to Friday! Thanks be to God that there are no book boxes to tote around. In case you play along at home and are wondering, the Friday Five will become a Facebook event every Friday, but… Read More
Wednesday Festival: End-of-July Edition
This is the last Wednesday Festival in July. We are witnessing the distillation process of the political parties in the United States, as well as the waning of summer vacation. A few places that have year-round school have just begun again. In Texas, band members and football players will report for practices starting next… Read More
Wednesday Festival – Summertime?
It’s the first Wednesday Festival in July. Game of Thrones is on a break & I am caught up on House of Cards with only two episodes of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt left to watch. Our family has already completed our Fantastic Summer Vacation. All we have now is the heat of a Texas summer… Read More
Wednesday Festival – How is it June already?!
Today is the last day of school here. My youngest has the last full school day in his academic career today. Next year, he will be a high school senior. Around here, that means his schedule will look more like the schedule of a college kid. I love that our local system helps our seniors… Read More
Wednesday Festival – Marking Time in May
It is interesting to mark time in ways that most other do not. We see it often in the liturgical calendar & sometimes feel out of step with the secular world. Today was the last day of my Spring Semester. All the work is done. My College Kids still have two weeks, the High Schoolers… Read More
Exploring Fears – Wednesday Festival
Fear shows up in many ways with many different faces and some of those ways have been written about this week: Kathy quotes Bishop Steven Charleston, one of my favorite daily devotional writers, “No, fear and hate will never have the last word. Love will.” Susanna writes about her planner and her fear of unpreparedness… Read More
Wednesday Festival – Passing Time
Sometime about now, Rev Gals and Pals remind ourselves that Easter is truly 50 days. There is time to sit a drink a cool class of water, or a hot cup of coffee. There is time to plan the next thing well after the busy-ness of planning All The Things of Holy Week and Easter Day.… Read More
In the Midst of March Madness
Searching for some Soul Sustenance? Here it is – writers pointing us to Life in the midst of our Madness. Take a break, take a deep breath, savor something, and go read some really good RevGal writing: This – by Julia. “I am not ready to hear the cries of ‘Crucify him’ and to see… Read More
Wednesday Festival – Looking for Hope
The first Wednesday Festival of March is short – mostly because I am writing this as I watch the results of Super Tuesday in the United States, specifically in Texas. In the midst of the crazy political events, I went looking through the blogs for real – real hope, real joy, real inspiration. Here are… Read More
Wednesday Festival
There was a common them of different sorts of passages this week: some are new and exciting, some are cyclical, some are still being pondered. These reflections on the RevGalBlogPal ring are just a sampling of the excellent writing. Please go explore and find some new friends in the ring! “These stories seem inconsequential…That is,… Read More
