Three weeks ago, I took a Lyft to Stamford, caught an Amtrak into Moynihan Hall, and transferred to an overnight train to Chicago. I briefly saw my son, but my destination was Sheboygan, Wisconsin. For three months I will be “doing a unit” of Clinical Pastoral Education (“CPE”) as the student chaplain in a hospital. […]
by Kim Warman
A Minister’s Message – Dawn of a New Season – March 23, 2021
Last Saturday was the Spring Equinox, and again I went to the beach at dawn, an experience utterly different from the November morning when I was last there, under overcast skies and buried in apprehensive news on the radio. My boots marked my pace and my eyes looked ahead to avoid crushing anything precious, but […]
by Kim Warman
A Minister’s Message – Endurance of Place, Of People – February 9, 2021
I woke up to find the flakes falling again this morning, this time fresh snow upon layers already fallen. When it snowed here in November, my heart was too heavy to carry me outside. I remembered a childhood of snow in Pennsylvania, saw three winters in Boston with none, then I lived in Montreal for seven […]
by Kim Warman
A Minister’s Message – Reminders of Hope and Resilience – December 29, 2020
My Christmas cactus bloomed between Thanksgiving and Solstice this year, at the end of a long fall semester, weighted down by pandemic and paper writing. Each summer, I take Amtrak overnight from Chicago to New York state, and spend time with the childhood friend who introduced me to Unitarian Universalism. She and her husband live […]
by Kim Warman
A Minister’s Message – A Reciprocal Relationship – November 17, 2020
I had wondered if I had somehow missed the brilliant red of maple leaves, but finally found them this week, forming umbrellas of red and brilliant sunlight over littered ground. Creating red circles among lawns of green, contrasting elsewhere against yellow. As life’s restrictions have stretched through months, I am thankful for noticing changes I […]
by Kim Warman
A Minister’s Message – Wherever We Are, We Can Begin Again – September 23, 2020
My first writing of a Minister’s Message coincided with Rosh Hashanah, and though I am not Jewish, through proximity of friends and neighborhoods, I have found messages of the High Holy Days to be meaningful. The Birthday of the World reminds me of how enduring this planet is, how forgiving it can be, and that […]