Pastor’s Corner:

Earlier thi s week, someone said to me, “With some people, in certain places, if you don’t fit in, you just don’t fit in. You don’t feel welcome.” Unfortunately, this statement was made regarding church, but I think this sense of isolation extends to the entirety of the human experience.

Ouch!

We’ve hit a phase here. “It’s time to get your shoes on.” “Nooo!” “Let’s brush your teeth.” “Nooo!” “Do you want breakfast?” “Nooo!” “How about a drink?” “Nooo!” It doesn’t matter the suggestion, the offer, the instruction. It’s all the same. That’s the world of a 2-year-old.

Pastor’s Corner:

In the immedia te aftermath of COVID, when the world was coming to life again, Pope Francis talked about the need to reclaim a shared humanity that had been disrupted by the pandemic. “Today, there is no time for indifference,” he said.

Bloom

I was working on my daughter’s hair last weekend and when I reached down to grab the hair brush, one of the bristles pierced through between my thumbnail and fingertip. My goodness did it hurt! I gasped so loudly that my daughter thought I had burned myself with the curling iron. No.

Pastor’s Corner:

As Chr i s t ians s t i l l living in the world, we all experience all manner of trials and challenges. Christ suffered; why shouldn’t we? But his sufferings, seen in the light of his Resurrection, give meaning and hope to our own.

Bloom

In our nearly 23 years of marriage and ministry, we have lived in communities in Tennessee, Ohio, and now Western Kansas. In the years that we lived in Byrdstown, Tennessee, our girls and I were active in a weekly playgroup with a few moms and their children.

...Yesteryears

May 24,1923 Vol. 38, No. 28 Lee Oldham, Owner Harry Coyne, Publisher Hoss - Rewerts— Married, at the residence of the bride’s parents in south side township, Sunday May 13th, 1923, at high noon, Rev. Charles S. Calkins officiating, Mr. Thomas H.

Pastor’s Corner:

What might your final words before passing be? Reportedly, when actor and comedian Richard Belzer passed away [in February, 2023] at the age of 78, his final words were filled with expletives and rather scandalous.

Cookies & Pie

Recently, I asked my husband to make some cookie dough for a function we had coming up. There’s a funny meme we’ve seen that says something like “When a man says he’s going to do something, there’s no need to remind him every 6 months”, or something funny like that.

Pastor’s Corner:

A reflection on sin and forgiveness There is a well-known s tory of a group of schoolboys who were playing a game during recess. They determined that whoever lost the game would have to go to seek out their parish priest and receive the Catholic sacrament of confession and reconciliation.