When my husband and I got married nineteen years ago, one of the people on both of our invitee lists was a woman named Georgia, whom we’d both known before we knew each other. Georgia was the q...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2023/10/02/the-waterford-cookie-jar/
I’d like to share a lovely (in the end) story from yesterday. I was in my office at the church, and one of our staff members called. She was a block away, and a young man was having a medical e...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2023/08/15/the-superpower-of-presence/
A group of seven amazing women have joined me this Lent for a discussion of the book This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley. If you haven’t yet read it, stop reading this blog, order it from a bo...
The red maple leaf on the wet pavement looks like a star. Maybe it once was that, a star, a star that Exploded into infinite piece of dust that Traveled across the galaxies and eons, Just to land...
I had forgotten so much about September in these past few years. I had forgotten that those who can flee for beaches and mountains and just plain other places over Labor Day weekend, squeezing in...
“Chronos time is how we measure our days and our lives quantitatively. Kairos is the qualitative time of life.” (Josep F. Maria, SJ) I’m thinking about Holy Week, and worship services for P...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2022/03/18/when-chronos-and-kairos-collide/
Yesterday morning, as I was drinking my coffee and going over my sermon, which would be delivered to an online-only congregation, I read a headline and immediately had some thoughts. As of Monday...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2022/01/31/why-churches-should-continue-their-online-services/
What if, in our lifetimes, we had the ability to perform one miracle? That thought came to mind as I was walking the dog the other morning, when I often get my best thoughts. We were walking by m...
Isaiah 60:1-6 What is our prayer for this new year? Right off the bat, I can think of about a hundred things I would like God to take care of this year. The ...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2022/01/02/coming-back-a-sermon-on-january-2-2022/
Every since I got my hip replaced five years ago, I’ve been more aware of the delicate nature of where things connect – joints in the human body. Ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, elbow...
https://holdfasttowhatisgood.com/2021/10/14/where-things-connect/