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Category: Armchair Theology

Blessing Of The Animals

2022/10/03 Gayle 0

Perhaps the Blessing of the Animals is the favorite thing I get to do!! Here are my words from Sunday October 2, 2022: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 Common English Bible I also thought, where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless. All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust. Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth? So I perceived that there was nothing better for human beings but to enjoy what The rest of the story

A Christmas Lesson (good all year)

2020/12/14 Gayle 0

So I’m a little bah humbug on Christmas this year. Nothing will be like every other year…we’ll be home at dhachaigh rather than Tobaccoville at mama’s (where I’ve spent every one of my 57 Christmases). I can be curmudgeonery anyway and this year has a millionth dose. Anyway, last Saturday night I got all excited to put up a tree! So we bought a coupon – a $40 tree for $28 – an NC TREE from a local store! Win – Win – Win, right…nope all their $40 trees were ~4ft (who wants to look down on the angel?). So I bah humbuged and grumbled (and grumbled about Christmas, about spent money, about…well, everything – it’s a rabbit hole). During the week we went to The rest of the story

Branches

2017/03/29 Gayle 0

Yesterday I preached for the Harbor District Lay Servant Ministries Committee. Here’s my sermon: I have a confession. I am a horrible gardener! I can, and do kill most any plant – I either love it too much or not enough I either cut it back too far or let it grow out of control I am not proud to say…..I can kill mint! In our scripture today is John 15: 1-8 (reading from the common English bible) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper. 2 He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit. 3 You are already trimmed because of the word I have spoken The rest of the story

Riding Into Lent

2017/03/03 Gayle 0

Riding my bike daily is one of the practices I have decided to take up for Lent. While we often think of Lent being a time when we give up something or when we take up a ‘spiritual practice’, something like prayer or alms giving, Lent can also be a time of reflection, repentance, and change. I need to turn from my unhealthy practices I have fallen into and take up healthy practices – my bike is quite literally a vehicle of change. My goal is to ride 40 minutes each day for the 40 days of Lent. There is no speed goal. No distance goal. Only time and movement. The first day I fell short by 9 minutes. On day 2 Jenn rode with The rest of the story

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