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 only God knows. Found out the Call Committee of L church is having a second interview with a candidate next Mon. evening. I should be given 30 days notice after the call has been issued and acc...

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 already. The fall flew by with Thanksgiving and Advent and Christmas! Certain activities were ot held due to Omicron surging everywhere. L church did still hold their Christmas Concert somewhat...

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 So, apparently, one non-denominational storefront church merged with a local baptist church and moved out of their store-front. Then another non-denominational church bought the building and re...

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 I'm sure I'm not the only one who is feeling tired these days. I'm hoping it's not because of my age! But with the pandemic seemingly unending as the Delta variant sweeps across the world and y...

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 So the first drawing was held for the state's vax-a-million. Abbey, a 22 year old became the first winner of a million dollars. She was going to look for a used car when she got the call inform...

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 begins as we head into Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Perhaps, one blessing of the whole COVID lockdown last Lent was that I had Good Friday service and Maundy Thursday mostly planned out and done ...

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 a vaccine appointment! After hours and several days of trying various sites, I have an appointment for next Saturday for my first of two shots! I feel like I won the lottery!!! Finally! It has ...

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 will soon be here and it will be the very first time since Seminary that I will actually be home Christmas Eve. This year we are recording our Christmas Eve service on Wednesday evening which m...

http://signs-along-the-way.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas.html

 and time is quickly moving towards Advent. Still working on my Christmas Eve service and liturgy, and hoping to have sermons in Advent based on hope, peace, joy and love. Theming - Light in the...

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 is anyone else struggling with how to do Christmas Eve services this year with COVID19?    Normally, where I serve we do a lessons & carols service with either a short sermon or reflections...

http://signs-along-the-way.blogspot.com/2020/09/on-another-note-altogether.html

 who wonders what is happening in our world?     Such tragic deaths that were preventable, if only the person complied. Why, not just comply and if there is a mistake of identity, or wrongfu...

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it has been. COVID19, deteriorating race relations, and rioting and looting by anarchists. So very sad, disturbing and troubling. My soul has felt the weight of it all.     I grew up the first...

http://signs-along-the-way.blogspot.com/2020/07/quite-summer.html

Here it is well into June with July soon to come and time has gotten away from me. Which seems, perhaps, a bit ironic since my schedule is no where near as hectic now as it was before COVID19. ...

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So, I've always envied (I confess and have asked for forgiveness) those clergy who have been given and granted sabbaticals. In my nearly 37 years in ministry, I've never had a formal sabbatical. ...

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It certainly feels like exile. I miss the people I have been called to shepherd, love, care for and lead. I miss seeing their faces in familiar places in the pews. I miss seeing them on Sunday mo...

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Ahh, spring your beauty of grass as green as green can be, purple crocuses with bright orange centers that have bloomed, periwinkle anemones with their white star center, cheery yellow daffodils,...

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in the M church I serve was sad. Although we are meeting remotely every Tuesday morning, it is hard not to be together in person.    The Thursday before our last in person meeting, I had visit...

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today than over the weekend. There are no school buses running to pick up kids noisily gathered on corners to go to school. The kids are all home as we are. Moms and Dads aren't shuttling their k...

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the 2 mile drive to church was eerily quiet. Traffic was so light, not many cars for a Monday morning when the school buses should have been making their rounds and moms and dads driving their ki...

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our hope for days (years) to come.    I was simply astounded at the grocery store and W-Mart to see such empty shelves of paper products, pain relief, frozen veges, canned veges, peanut butter...

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In the middle of Lent and still working on Good Friday service, haven't started Maundy Thursday service, let alone Easter and Joy Sunday.     I did get an idea for May First Friday, so that is...

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I am feeling so uninspired lately. It was as if after all the Advent/Christmas planning and activity just sucked all the creativity out of me, and here I am staring at Lent, Holy Week and Easter ...

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Thankfully, I survived December and actually, 2 packages of gifts arrived in time for Christmas and one was deliberately mailed to arrive after Christmas when my sister and BIL returned home from...

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I have been enjoying a bit of quiet before the storm today. The grey squirrel perched on the window sill of my office comes by most days when I am here. Today, it came and rested. Perhaps soaking...

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We've had to walk another beloved dog across Rainbow Bridge. Renoir our grey had renal failure and a growth on his hind leg that kept getting bigger. The vet said in another 1-2 weeks that could'...

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