I’m posting on trash night, because this week, my Lenten purge is a bunch of garbage- literally. I took a close look in the invisible places of my home. This led to some alarming discoveries: -Expired hot sauce in the fridge -Soy sauce packets -Pantry items way past their shelf life -medications from years ago … More Garbage, Clutter and Boxes
+ Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy… God will redeem me from the depth of all depths… *** The knot in my stomach this morning told me I was in that old familiar place the Psalmist … More God’s Invitation
Invocation Prayer, May 13th 2013 Girl Scouts of Memphis Awards Ceremony Gracious God, you have called each of us to live with courage, confidence, and character. Thank you for the young women here who have answered this call. Thank you for the ways our Girl Scouts have made the world a better place where the … More Memphis Girl Scouts
Invocation Prayer Offered at Memphis City Adopt-a-School luncheon, May 1, 2013 Loving God, we know that long, long ago- you created the teacher, and you said that she was very good. You would send her out to shepherd the next generation of singers, dancers, artists, doctors and lawyers. You would send her out to plant … More God Created Teachers
+ Isaiah 3:26 The gates of the city will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground. They say a collective scream broke out on the streets of Boston when two bombs exploded at the marathon finish line. I imagine synchronized tears fell. Simultaneously, hearts broke open. Yes. In a sense we all … More Collective Scream
– Picture of Andrew, Sarah, and Dot: December 2011 + Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread… The call came during our festival worship- sweet Dot was fading fast at the hospital. It was time to say goodbye. I jumped in my car as another minister proclaimed … More Glimpses of Grace: Day 30
+Acts 19:32 The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there. In Acts 19, an outrageous scene unfolds in Ephesus. A riot breaks out between Jews and Greeks. Some began shouting ‘Great is Artemis’ while others preached about the Holy … More Glimpses of Grace: Day 29
+ Acts 18:9-11 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year … More Glimpses of Grace: Day 28
+ Acts 17:22-28 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you … More Glimpses of Grace: Day 27
+ Acts 16:13-15 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in … More Weekend Glimpses of Grace: Day 25-26
Ordaining Sarah: Reflections on the Journey 