Tag: loss
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Last Good Days
I noticed on Saturday that it was the anniversary, liturgical yearly speaking, of our last Cajun Dinner. It was traditional for us to hold it on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. That’s if “traditional” can be something we’ve been doing for under twenty years. Not everyone would say that, but I would. It was a…
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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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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…
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday morning came around as it always does, and we came to church, as we always do, and we had Sunday school and worship and fellowship and more Sunday school, as we always do. To any outside observer it would have seemed indistinguishable from any other Sunday. We could feel the difference, of course. We…
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We did a lot of crying today. The church has always been, from the very beginning, a community of people coming and going, in every kind of way, at every stage of life: a community of strangers we meet and welcome and come to know as friends and companions and bid farewell and Godspeed. It…
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Sixth Sunday in Easter
Today was about the flag. After months of discussion, in the congregation and Session and Worship Committee and back to Session, the decision about what to do about displaying the American and Christian flags that were donated by a member before we moved to the new (“new,” that is, 25-year-old) building from the church on…
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Second Sunday of Easter
The Preacher says there’s a time for everything. You know: “A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,” etc. etc. Ecclesiastes 3. “Turn turn turn.” A time to meet, and a time to say good-bye. We’re adults, we understand, we do. We understand that people…
Matters of Interpretation 