This Pastor Has Nothing to Say

Since United Methodist pastors move every five years on the average, one thing most of us become good at is saying goodbye.  However, it is usually us saying that as we prepare to move on to our next appointment at a different church.  Occasionally, though, we have to...

It really is true that sometimes you need a vacation to recover from your vacation.  That is where I have existed this week.  My husband and I spent last week in sunny Florida trying to be big kids at the Disney parks in Orlando.  We enjoyed our time away, but we...

Why?  That is a question I heard a lot this morning as I served as part of a team of people to bring grief counseling services to our junior high students upon the loss of a classmate in a house fire yesterday.  Why?  Why her?  She was just nice.  Why her?  She had...

No this is not about a $15 minimum wage or the COLA adjustment to my husband's pension.  It is just where my mind went today.  Last night I found myself complaining to my husband about the cost of a new medication that I now must take as a result of cancer treatment. ...

I am on vacation...sort of.  I have one of my dearest friends spending some time with me (yes, we are both fully Covid-vaccinated) over spring break, so I have taken the week off.  However, as she is leaving tomorrow and it is also Lent - one of the most important...

I am blessed.  Or am I?  I have long believed that I am, and I still do.  Yet one thing I read this week in preparing for the sermon got me to thinking about using that phrase.  In his book What Makes a Hero?  The Death-Defying Ministry of Jesus Christ, author and...

This Pastor Has Nothing to Say... I have been toying with starting a blog for a while now, but I wasn't (and still am not) sure that I had anything worthwhile to say outside of Sunday sermons.  But here I am.  Nothing gets done if we don't first get started.  That...

Thanksgiving Isn't Just in November... I have been fortunate enough this week to have some good news come on several different fronts.  These were all things that I prayed for for days before the news came. Oh, I always remembered in my prayers during those days to...