These minister messages began in part as answers to the “Question Box” sermon long before the pandemic struck. These were not answered in the service itself. One of those questions was “What’s your favorite part about being our minister?” It’s a great question and one I think about often. Let me start by saying what […]

We often hear the words “pay attention” and slip back to some distant memory of being scolded by a teacher or a parent. In reality, this simple command has so much to offer us. When the student asked the Zen Master “What is the path to enlightenment?” the old master replied “pay attention!” Surely, thought […]

Someone shared this little fable with me the other day and I thought it was very wise. We should all recognize that one of the downsides of this continuing pandemic and isolation is the grief we are feeling. Grief is a natural part of being human and it comes in all shapes and sizes. Let’s […]

We are crossing so many thresholds. The time we are spending paused from the great race of our lives is changing us in ways both common and profound. The planet is the biggest winner in this terrible pandemic. She is resting and renewing each week in ways even our best laid plans could never achieve. […]

More than a few of you have mentioned how exhausting it is to hear nothing but bad news about our current times. To be sure there is much about the pandemic which is terrible. The loss of life, the loss of our loved ones, the virulence of this disease and the opportunities for connection we […]

All of us can see the bad news: the death toll in NY and CT is staggering, we seem to be running out of medical supplies, and the federal response to this pandemic has been woefully inadequate. I can’t imagine the stress front-line providers, from doctors to delivery people, must be feeling. If you are […]

I have been giving a lot of thought to the wash of emotions we all seem to be feeling these days. I have been contemplating this uneasiness I feel. Most of us are safe or in very good hands. A few of us have suffered real loss. We miss being together and yet many of […]

In his classic book, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez wrote of his hero: “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to […]