Tag: friendship
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Inarticulate Emotions
Weather interfered with our plans – to bid a fond farewell to a couple of valued, treasured members. People are delighted for them to have found a new place closer to children and grandchildren, and better situated for their needs. And people are simultaneously dismayed at everything this will mean for us, absent them, going […]
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Nudges Past Inertia
The Peacemaking Offering always makes me think of the Hennessies. Anne was a welcoming fellow alto when I started singing with the choir. She made me feel like I wasn’t completely incompetent, by sharing the secret that listening to the people around you to stay on pitch is not only not cheating, it’s what everyone […]
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Locking Up
Someone always has to be the last one out of the building. It’s not always the same person, though. We almost all know how it feels by now. The building is familiar, and yet … when I’m the last one, it feels a lot bigger, a lot emptier, a lot quieter. It’s not even always […]
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Stepping Up
All kinds of groups can be “church” in the sense of being that place where we feel the people around us embrace us and accept us, and where we can count on people to care about us and support us. Most recently, last night at rehearsal one of the chorus members announced that she may […]
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Third Sunday in Advent
We learned that the wife of one of our dear classmates passed away early this morning. It shades everything. Here, now, in the middle of this hectic season of relentless merriment, we are thinking of our friend and of loss and of grief … We often say, I often say, that “we don’t just have […]
Matters of Interpretation 