Tag: paying attention
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Paradox
This year, our Worship Committee sent out “star words” for Epiphany – which we celebrated a little early, on Sunday. “Star words,” according to the explanation we got in the mail, are words to “ponder all year long,” to pay attention to and meditate on during the course of the year, with the idea that…
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Seeing Lessons
In the story about Moses and the burning bush, once God has Moses’s attention, God tells Moses to take off his shoes, “because the ground on which you are standing is holy.” What makes it holy? Asks our pastor. We already know the answer: because God is there. But then, in that case, what ground…
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Baptism of the Lord
A record number of members showed up at church on Saturday to help take down the Christmas decorations and re-fit the sanctuary for the Season After Epiphany – namely, wintry and spare. The regulars kept exclaiming “It only took us ONE HOUR” to get everything taken down and packed away and stored in the usual…
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This turned out to be a big day in “ordinary time” in more than one way. A friend of ours talks about our “all day church.” “We can’t play bridge on Sunday because you all have all day church.” But we don’t have all day church, really, most days, just all morning church. This week,…
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Ash Wednesday
A relative handful of folks gathered in our sanctuary this evening at 7:00 for one of the Lenten-Easter season’s “special mid-week services.” Three of the small churches in town have collaborated on these special services for at least the past 20 years or so, and take turns hosting one of the days – Ash Wednesday,…
Matters of Interpretation 