We don’t always notice the turning of the seasons as it happens day by day. And then, all at once, the signs appear in an unmistakable way. The first green shoots poking out of the garden soil in Wisconsin, the first baby lambs in the hills of Scotland, the noticeable chill in the early morning… Read More
Friday Festival: Into the Mess
Do we fear mess? The season of Lent invites us into the messy unknown. By exploring spiritual practices and wrestling with any discord in our hearts, we invest in the Lenten wilderness process as we see in our friend’s blogs. April Fiet dives into a physically space to sort through items – specifically Flip Flops… Read More
Friday Festival: Labyrinthine Longings
What are you pondering two weeks into Lent? What are you longing for in the quiet of your heart? Elaine Besthorn unlocks the #lentenlabyrinth~~seek. We arrived. The door was locked. More of our group arrived. They too tried the door. Still locked. I guess they did not trust our findings. Repeat entire sequence one more… Read More
Friday Festival: Early Lent
Hello, all! I’m filling in on today’s Friday Five, which has reminded me that a lot of people are practicing, practicing, practicing — and then writing about their Lenten practices. In The Edge is Here, Elaine is writing about words, words, words for Lent. Her exploration of the word “possess” asks us: What do… Read More
Friday Festival giving up edition
It feels like such an age since I read through the blogs for Friday Festival – truth is – IT IS AGES!!! Mostly because I swapped January and forgot; and then February came and I missed that one too. In spite of diary and planner and phone reminders… those of you who receive the RevGalBlogPals… Read More
Friday Festival: How Shall We Respond?
Often when I review blog posts for this weekly roundup, it takes me a while to see a theme emerging. And sometimes I never do see one. That was not the case this week, in the wake of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church. A significant portion of the 150 new blog posts… Read More
Friday Festival: These Writing Women
While the call to ministry is not necessarily a call to writing, RevGalBlogPals was founded by women whose urge to write, both about ministry and about life more broadly, led them to publish blogs. Whatever we write, from poems to prayers to anecdotes and sermon illustrations, we are writing to some extent about ourselves. Connie… Read More
Friday Festival: After Valentine’s Day
Whether you love Valentine’s Day or despise it, it echoes through our culture, and the feelings linger on even when the day is past. Our bloggers are looking past the flowers, and past the pressure to be a perfect couple, past the teddy bears and the emphasis on romantic love to something deeper. This day… Read More
Friday Festival: Finding Our Way
Sometimes it seems that the whole world has lost its way, that we need to find our way back from somewhere we didn’t even know we had wandered. This week, several of our bloggers are thinking about the landscapes in which we find ourselves and the things that call us back. In the days following… Read More
Friday Festival: How we spend our moments
It has been one of those weeks at my house where full days have left very little time to pause and reflect, even though there are things happening that could use more thoughtful attention. Perhaps, then, it’s not surprising that in looking around the RevGals blogging community I was struck by the moments these writers… Read More
