Monthly Archives: March 2020

It’s here,in the morning,on our side deck,that I am reconnecting with my God. I get away from the news for a while;I get away from my thoughts for a while;I get away from the preparation for days of isolation for a while. The cardinal sings his beautiful song and I see him fly from treeContinue reading “March 31, 2020”

I received a newsletter from Jim and Jodi McGill today.  Jodi teaches nursing, Jim engineers systems for clean water and sanitation.  They do this in the middle of Africa, specifically South Sudan and Niger.  They live and work without what we would call “sound infrastructure”, reliable supply chains or even personal safety. They wrote toContinue reading “March 30, 2020”

Six More Weeks of Lent Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. -Paul (Romans 6:4)     A couple of upsides to this challenging time haveContinue reading “March 28, 2020”

Lenten Devotional Every now and then I experience what Steve Goyer terms a “God moment,” as I expect you do.  At the Presbytery meeting in January, I met Ricardo Green, the new pastor at Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) Presbyterian Church in Orange Park.  Our meeting led to a God moment for me.   Ricardo wasContinue reading “March 26, 2020”

Home-made Yogurt Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,  even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.  -Jesus (Matthew 6:28b-29) I was sitting in my quiet office at RPC a few days ago. Bill Hoff was preaching the following SundayContinue reading “March 25, 2020”

My mother is in Assisted Living.  She is also under hospice care.  She is bed bound so she never leaves her small bedroom. She is extremely hard of hearing so she is unable to make any sense of a phone call.  She is still smart as a whip like you remember her, although at timesContinue reading “March 24, 2020”

Julian of Norwich, a 14th century Christian mystic, had a series of visions from God while gravely ill (she later recovered and recorded them). In one, she saw a tiny object like a hazelnut in her palm, and God told her it contained all that God had created. As she marveled at its smallness andContinue reading “March 23, 2020”

How Long? How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? –David, Psalm 4:2     I am the father of four kiddies. We proudly owned and used up two minivans through their growing-up years. We made trips in them. So you know that IContinue reading “March 22, 2020”

O Lord… We come before you now with heavy hearts full of so many emotions. We grieve the amount of people who are sick and the families who have lost loved ones. We feel powerless to help expand our hospitals to meet this crisis. We feel turmoil with the daily changes that the news brings.Continue reading “March 21, 2020”