Many of us don’t like change. I’m one of them. Change, in my mind mind, equates to chaos and general upset, neither of which I like. But whether or not we like change, we have changed. We have gotten older, our weight and hair quantity may have changed along the way, our opinions about all […]
Memory and hope
This is the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day and as such we had some moments of remembrance in the service. As I specifically mention in at least one of the sermons, I don’t preach on secular calendar events. There is nothing wrong with those events but we are Revised Common Lectionary churches and it is […]
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday isn’t the easiest of Sundays for me . . . and lots of other folks too of course. It isn’t that it triggers my combat related PTSD, I don’t have combat related PTSD, rather it triggers a wave of emotions. Emotions like regret and sadness but also gratitude and joy. I think it […]