Thursday, March 6 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted…
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“Hard Questions of Faith”–Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2014 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. Job took a potsherd with which to…
“Dance”– A Spiritual Reflection by Willie Sordillo
You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. Psalm 30:11-12 Every year some friends rent a church hall,…
Advent Reflection, by Willie Sordillo
Advent Reflection As I write, our daughter, Nina, is somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, scheduled to land at JFK in two hours and two minutes. (More or less!) From there, she is to have a 5 ½ hour layover…
A Win-Win Shopping Excursion–Reflection by Debbie Clark
“A Win-Win Shopping Excursion” “Christmas is not about capitalism.” Kate Byers, Student Pastor at Edward Church, UCC in Framingham, is grateful for an opportunity to put her words into action. Byers will be in charge of the Equal Exchange table…
Remembering–by Fran Bogle
11/11/2011 was the day that my mom died. As our family gathered around her hospital bed holding hands I prayed that her broken body would stop breathing and that she would be at peace. And so it was. Today on…
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”–A Spiritual Reflection by Willie Sordillo
All I have needed thy hand hath provided- Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me. (Thomas O. Chisholm) Great is Thy faithfulness. I love to sing it, but what does it mean for God to be faithful? Most of the…
Wildlife–A Spiritual Reflection by Willie Sordillo
Wildlife By Willie Sordillo For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to…
The Story We Tell–A Spiritual Reflection by Debbie Clark
As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! –Luke 19:41-42 Sometimes it seems…
“Hope”–A Spiritual Reflection by Debbie Clark
“Hope”—A Spiritual Reflection by Debbie Clark “…they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own…