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Listening To God

email devotion, pentecost 9 Happy is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. (Psalm 128:1) I’m not much of a camper, but I have always enjoyed hiking, and on vacation last week we had a chance to take a modest hike near Deep Creek Lake, along the Swallow Falls Canyon Trail in…

Cathedrals

Email Devotion, Pentecost 8 O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. –Psalm 8:1, NRSV I was driving home from a day with our youth at this year’s Confirmation Camp at Camp Kirchenwald. And as I was heading south along Mt. Wilson…

Freed

So if the Son sets you free, then you will be free indeed. –John 8:36 Happy Independence Day! This day marks the 240th anniversary when the Continental Congress declared the 13 colonies a new nation, the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence states that there are unalienable rights that all may enjoy–the freedom…

Holy Vessels

Email Devotion, Pentecost 6 “Qodesh cheres … Holy vessels.” That was the phrase the guest rabbi used in his comments. But in describing the Jewish usage of the phrase, he noted that the description did not mean a vessel which embodies holiness in its nature, but that of an ordinary vessel holding holy things. The…

Icons and Talismans

Email Devotion, Pentecost 5 It has been my companion in ministry for more than thirty years. I bought it early in 1983 as a senior seminarian in preparation for my first call. It is my Occasional Service Book (OSB). It has seen better days, like me … it’s a little creaky … a bit shopworn ……

On Track. Toot-toot!

Email Devotion, Pentecost 4 As a little girl, I remember I hated to get my hands dirty. I loved dolls, Barbies, dress-up and make-up. I have two sisters and no brothers. While my sisters and I played a variety of sports, I wouldn’t consider us highly competitive. I was a bit of a girly-girl,…

Stealing Past Your Dragons

Email Devotion, Pentecost 3 But a dragon lies in ambush for the traveler; take care he does not bite you and inject in you his poison of unbelief …. In your journey to the Father of souls, your way lies past that dragon. How shall you pass him? You must have ‘your feet stoutly with…

Memorial Day Revisited

Email Devotion, Pentecost 2 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” –John 15:13, NRSV It began with an old, weathered, wooden HONOR ROLL that had been kept in storage for over seventy years! Names, many names, some familiar, but most were unfamiliar. These were the names…

Daddy-O, Junior, and Spook

Email Devotion, Trinity Sunday And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ –Galatians 4:6, NRSV Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit. –George Ripley It feels a bit risky to define the Trinity in terms of…