We are entering into November, which means those in the United States will soon be celebrating Thanksgiving. But the idea of thanksgiving should not be limited to the fourth Thursday of November, nor should any sort of gratitude or generosity be relegated to just a season of the year. Gratitude is the sense of happiness […]
Category: Church topics
This is the category where the blog posts I write inspired by stuff from my little church ends up. Most are inspired by sermons I have heard or things the church is doing.
Glimmers of kindness
“Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.” ~ August Pullman, character in Wonder by R. J. Palacio If one looks at any viral social media post, one is given an example of the worst of humanity. There are the armchair experts who deem everything is wrong, the ones who […]
Put your feet to work
Yesterday was the memorial fundraising walk for my dear friend Margo, who passed away back in August and whom I have mentioned in this blog many times. A retired teacher, an avid lover of learning, and a woman with a huge heart, she was an example of someone who put her feet to work. She […]
Give it time
“It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground / It takes a little time sometimes to turn the Titanic around / It takes a little time sometimes, but baby, you’re not going down. It takes more than you got right now / Give it, give it time” ~ Amy […]
They will know this by our love
It’s Wednesday night and the church building in my tiny town in this swath of the Midwest seems to be hopping, even though it’s one of the smaller ones in town. As children practice learning the fruit of patience by playing silent ball and memory, the English Language Learners group, a mix of refugees and […]
Live in Peace
Look at any news website or turn on any channel and you’ll surely hear about war. Hamas has attacked Israel. Russia is still invading Ukraine. Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria are all in the midst of civil wars. Drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia and terrorists in armed […]
Abounding joy
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe we all aren’t as accepting of others as we like to think we are? Sometimes, even when we say everyone is welcome, we don’t mean everyone. We exclude those who are different from us. We tell them to conform to our ideals, our values, our way of […]
Where There is Love
Anyone who pays attention to the news will tell you that there is so much in the way of hatred in our world today. Look at the way invasions, mass shootings, book ban parties, even comments on social media accounts are perversive. We make rules against love. We tell people they cannot love others because […]
Miles and Miles
My late friend Margo was known for walking upwards of seven miles a day, no matter if it were raining, snowing, or if the sun was shining brightly. And while I can get upwards of 24,000 steps in a day with the full time job, I still feel as if I pale in comparison. I […]
Be Fruity
“By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.” ~ Galatians 5:22-23 (New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition) Every time I hear the above passage, I think of a song the little kids used to sing at the church I […]
K. S. Wood Writes 