I don’t need to try to explain to you what hard times, fear and death are like. We are in the middle of them at the moment. It is tangible, you can almost smell it. We have been fortunate. For most of us here, the danger and the death is out there. Close, lurking, butContinue reading “Good Friday 2022”
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4 Lent 2022
Parables are wonderful because no matter where we are spiritually, there is usually a character in the story with whom we can connect, but to be true to the story we need to put it in context. Imagine for a moment Jesus has been teaching for several months near the Sea of Galilee and largeContinue reading “4 Lent 2022”
5 Lent 2021
Wednesday night, during our CS Lewis study, we talked about “tokens” or symbols and some ways we use them and how powerful they can be. I was in Food Lion the other day and the man behind me noticed the cross around the neck of the woman behind him and immediately started asking her whereContinue reading “5 Lent 2021”
4 Lent 2021
When I had a houseful of kids, if something went missing or got broken there were plenty of possible suspects and of course no one ever wanted to confess to being the guilty one. Now that I live alone, there is no one but myself to blame and when something goes missing, I know whoContinue reading “4 Lent 2021”
Lent 1 2021
Symbols can be powerful things. They can tell you at a glance a lot about a person who uses them. They can cause people to suddenly smile, or become angry. But I don’t think any symbol has been adopted by more groups of people and used to mean such a wide variety of things asContinue reading “Lent 1 2021”
The Rev. Beverly Patterson 