TO SAVOR LIFE!6/21/2021

The air conditioning is out again. People who promised to pay, don’t. The list of projects to be done is growing. Hopes seem to keep running into dead ends. There is plenty to bring us down.

But wait! We have a place to live. We have electricity. We have fans. We have a refrigerator and freezer. We have ice. We have running water. We have so much goodness all around us.

All the talk about mindfulness can be a little daunting for me. I can be so focused and one thing and have so many thoughts running around in my head, that I don’t have any idea what else is going on or what I have even just done. Even those of us who aren’t what my mother called “dingy,” can slip through meals, drive past familiar places, go through routines without paying much attention.

Modern science is teaching us that our lives can be filled with so much more joy if we take the time to savor these things. My prayer this morning is for the blessings of savoring:

FOR CLARITY…. Friday, 06/18/2021

As one who ponders, it can sometimes be difficult for me to get clarity, to brush away the fluff, to find the heart of the matter. Jesus was asked what is the most important commandment and he quickly summed it up: Love God with all your being, with all your mind, and with all your strength and Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Where else do we need clarity? In our perceptions? In our hopes and dreams? Our calling? Our world?

My prayer today is for clarity:

HAPPY CAMPERS!…. 6/10/2021…..Morning Prayer

Sometimes I don’t even have the words to express the overflowing experiences of God‘s love. It is something that I want for everyone.

Church camp was one of the places that I first began to grasp the reality of God‘s love. Some people have told me that they have not had those kind of experiences when they went to camp. It makes my heart hurt to know that. Now that camping season has begun, some in person and some virtually, I pray deeply that everyone who takes part in whatever way will experience the happy love of the creative life force that I call God.

Here is my prayer for Campers and truly for all of us.

GLORY ON TAP — 6/8/2021 — HOME COMMUNION — — SUNDAY — —

I am so glad that perfection does not mean never making a mistake, but living fully with love. I am so glad troubles around us do not mean that we are being punished; instead they can be looked past to the tastes of glory and the fullness of God. I am so glad that no one is ever “less than”.

In Creation, we were made GOOD. In Salvation, we are made FORGIVEN. In the gift of the Spirit, we are made a DWELLING OF GOD’S GLORY.

Each of us is invited, welcomed, accepted, and adopted into the Family. We Belong.

Please join me at The Table of Christ: