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09/14/2021

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04/18/2019

Good moms come in all shapes and forms 😍

06/14/2018

Something to think about.

Please contemplate, for the next few days, the words of the Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition. Please pray the whole prayer, and then consider the daily meditation.

Today, we consider the words…

“Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.”

As we face the divisive issues confronting us, it does seem that many people on differing sides have concluded they must have “all things” and their particular view must totally prevail, or there will be nothing to keep them in the UMC. They dream of a “purified” church in which they will not be troubled by “those people” who see things differently. It could be that the “nothing” we get is no more UMC when this “purification” is completed.

Maybe God is pushing us to one of those “chrysalis moments” when we must completely shuck off the old shell in order to emerge to new life. To some degree, that is what happened when Methodists formed a vibrant new church after the American Revolution. Or, maybe we are being called to learn to live with each other’s differences without fracturing. When the Methodist Episcopal Church split over the issue of slavery, some think it helped lay a tragic template for the larger national schism which took place a few years later.

Our task is to humbly discern God’s preference in this situation.

Another prayer which appears in our Hymnal addresses this. The prayer entitled “For the Unity of Christ’s Body” (564) says: Help each of us, gracious God, to live in such magnanimity and restraint that the Head of the church may never have cause to say to any one of us, “This is my body, broken by you.”

12/30/2017

Awesome music educational opportunity for your little ones.

09/09/2017

Love Bob and Larry.

08/03/2017

03/20/2017

A helpful chart from Creative Child Magazine that outlines the stages of child development from ages one through five.