There is so much acrimony, exasperation, impatience, outrage, ire, resentment, indignation, irritation, petulance, irritability, passion, rage, temper, violence out and about. These words are all synonyms for “anger.” Matt James, Ph.D. in a “Psychology Today” post from July 16 quotes Mark Twain: “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in whichContinue reading “anger”
Category Archives: Prayer
What does it mean for us to love?
On May 22, 2016, Trinity Sunday in our liturgical year, I was installed as the pastor and teacher at Trinity Church United Church of Christ in Northport, Michigan. You can watch an eight minute video that tells about Trinity and its heritage as well as breathes life into the service of Installation, which was a timeContinue reading “What does it mean for us to love?”
Summer, 2016 – Trinity Church of the UCC
Click on the link below to see the poster that is on the doors of Trinity about our worship this summer. You are invited. Summer worship poster – 2016
may we be worthy
Back in September of ’15, I was getting acquainted, as a resident, with Northport, Michigan. Matt Fitzgerald, whose mother introduced me to this fine village any number of years ago, posted a “Daily Devotional” on the UCC (United Church of Christ) webpage. Among his faithful words that September day were these “. . . IContinue reading “may we be worthy”
Lent – 2016
It is here already. On Wednesday night February 10, 2016, at 7:00, you are invited, Continue reading “Lent – 2016”
“on the pulse of the morning”
Someone on Sunday asked me if we were going to have the opportunity for further conversation about Maya Angelou’s poem that we heard and saw via video on December 27 at Trinity. https://youtu.be/xUuTig9kavA The answer is, YES! That morning we heard the story of the gifts that were brought by the folks-of-SofiaContinue reading ““on the pulse of the morning””
“I am the wave upon Grand Traverse Bay”
Matthew Fox recently published an updated and revised version of his autobiography, “Confessions.” I’ll be posting a brief review of the book here on December 26. Two previous wellsofwellness posts, and this one, are invitations for you to his book. In chapter seven, Fox quotes a seventh century Celtic poem that Patricia and I first heard fromContinue reading ““I am the wave upon Grand Traverse Bay””
An Opening Prayer: Matthew Fox honoring Reb. Zalmon
Hundreds gathered in a theater in Boulder, Colorado, on August 17, 2014, on what would have been Reb. Zalman’s ninetieth birthday, to pay him respect and gratitude. Matthew Fox was invited to offer the opening prayer at his service. You may find the prayer in Matt’s newly updated and revised autobiography, “Confessions” page 445: AncientContinue reading “An Opening Prayer: Matthew Fox honoring Reb. Zalmon”
“Christmas Sticks” of Florida and Michigan
Back in the early days of our love, Patricia and I used to roam the forest roads of the Nicolet National Forest in Vilas County of Wisconsin and look for a small, scrawny pine growing in the ditches, by the side of the road, to bring home for our Christmas tree. We always found oneContinue reading ““Christmas Sticks” of Florida and Michigan”
an invitation to prayer
Patricia went for a run this morning and got these two great pictures of Grand Traverse Bay – the one with the magnificent watery pathway of light – and the other, a closeup of the water and the sand that she said looked to her like watery petosky stones. While she was doing that, IContinue reading “an invitation to prayer”
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