Pastors' Blog
Archives: March 2023
Dear Ones,
When was the last time you "ugly cried"? Screamed in your car? Visited a rage room? What if I told you that all of those activities could be incorporated into a spiritual practice? This Sunday, we're diving into the concept of Lament.
Lament is an action word, not an emotion; it's how we use our bodies to express and metabolize emotions such as grief or anger, and it's how we share those feelings...
During Lent (February 22-April 8), we are steeping ourselves in the Psalms, this ancient poetry of generations of the faithful, as an entryway for our personal and collective prayer lives.
The psalms are full of all sorts of emotions, including the unpleasant and hard ones: anger, lament, fear, depression, revenge, retaliation. Many of us grew up learning to avoid expressing these hard emotions and sometimes feeling bad about ourselves if we did. And when the psalms express revenge...
REMINDER: Daylight Savings begins this Sunday, set clocks forward one hour.
During this season of Lent (February 22-April 8) we are immersing ourselves in the rich poetry of Psalms as a way to explore how it can deepen our spiritual lives and connection to God.
On the Third Sunday of Lent, we’ll hear the well-known Psalm 23 that talks about our personal relationship with God...
During Lent (February 22-April 8) we are steeping ourselves in the Psalms, this ancient poetry of generations of the faithful, as an entryway for our personal and collective prayer lives.
The poetry of the 150 psalms covers a broad range of human emotion: praise, elation, awe, remorse, despair, anger, frustration, gladness, revenge, love. When we're willing to enter into them, to make them a regular part of our lives, they show us in poetic ways what it means to be human. And what it...
