photo by Terri Pilarski I wish I could capture the gentle morning light soft lavender and pink, caressing the green trees that hold a hint of fall, a little red and yellow I wish I could capture the peace of early light the song of birds waking and rabbits nibbling clover signs that life… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Called to…
(Photo by Terri Pilarski, Deception Pass, Washington State) I am not preaching this Sunday, so I am a little less invested in the texts than I might be otherwise….however, I know that I always struggle as we come to the end of the long season after Pentecost. I follow the RCL and we are heading… Read More
Tuesday Prayer: Will God Come?
Photo by Terri C. Pilarski On a hot September night you found your way into the church, and knelt at the foot of the altar, below the cross. I came to you, laid my hand on your shoulder and asked what I could do to help. “I just want to pray”, you said. Later you… Read More
Tuesday Prayer: No Words
(photo of Antelope Island, The Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Terri Pilarski) On this Tuesday morning, I feel beaten and broken, and worn thin from the non-stop struggle of working for justice and to minimize the damage being done by those who believe that justice is only for a select few… Read More
Tuesday Prayer: Broken
(Photo by Terri Pilarski, of Chihuly glass, Seattle, WA) God of the broken broken by shame hidden deep and ignored for years which nonetheless affected everything turned joy to skepticism turned hope to caution turned love to fear turned anger to depression turned abuse to self blame blame. God of the broken break… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Get Behind
A few weeks ago I had a homeless woman show up at church, literally in the church, crouched over the kneelers, banging her fist on them, crying. When I approached her she looked up at me and said, “I just want to pray.” And then a little later, after I gave her water and food,… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
(Photo by Terri C. Pilarski, taken with her iPhone, the road Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA. taken July 27, 2018) Oh God. In the morning when the light is young I wake up hope full for this new day. Hopeful that I will lean toward Gratitude Grateful for people, who help me be… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
(photo by Dan Pilarski, Deception Pass, WA, July 29, 2018) These birds were comfortably grazing on whatever it is they find between rocks and water and silt, on a cool morning, they were mindless of people walking by and around splashing in the water and searching for seashells or staring out to sea lost… Read More
11th Hour Preacher’s Party: The Wisdom (or, uhm, not??) of Kings, Prophets, and Bread
After years of storing our home baked communion bread in the freezer of the church kitchen, we had two Sunday’s this summer where we discovered the communion bread was gone. All of it. 9 loaves, twice. Taken, I imagine, by a homeless person who wandered in to the kitchen, which is also the… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Plumb Tried and Tired
If you are following the Revised Common Lectionary you are probably pondering one or more of the readings from here. I am not preaching this Sunday, for the first time in I don’t know when….but if I were I’d ponder the plumb line in Amos and somehow connect it to the tipping point in Mark where… Read More
