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
Wednesday Festival: Procrastinations
It’s Holy Week — holy, sacred, oh-so-busy week in the life of the Church. Sometimes we go “all in” with Holy Week, meditating deeply through each of Jesus’ last days. Sometimes we scramble to be present and mindful in time for Easter sunrise. And sometimes — whether we are immersed in the sacred or scrambled… 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: Lenten Shorts
We are not quite to Holy Week, but we may all be almost at our limit. So . . . . short posts, one a day for the next seven days. Dip into the well, pastors, and remember that you are more than schedules and extras and service piled upon service. Rachel is writing… 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: Lenten Living
From our RevGalBlogPals’ webring, here are a few field notes and love letters and encouragements being shared about this year’s Lenten journey: + “Be still. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.” An Unfinished Symphony (quoting Linda Hogan’s Dwellings) remembers the faith and love of previous generations through the unique design of… Read More
Wednesday Festival: leading well.
I spent this afternoon working with a group of recently ordained women and men as we considered what authenticity looks like in ministry and how we sustain our good health. This week a number of RevGals’ blogs are talking about leadership and sustainability. Lisa Lewis wrote an article about this here on Monday. If you… Read More
Wednesday Festival: Ash Wednesday
“Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return. Repent and believe the Gospel.” These words, or words like them, will be spoken in many places around the world as Ash Wednesday arrives in our respective time zones. Around the RevGals ring, we are writing about Lenten practices, about these words and our mortality,… 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
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