“All of us know what it’s like to lose our faith. We’ve been betrayed by a relationship, let down by our church community or convinced that life just won’t get better.” – From the March 2022 Renewing Faith Soul Matters packet The poem below (author unknown) captures that sense of vulnerability when our faith is […]
Cultivating Awe
One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year was a small, bound book entitled “One Line a Day.” The giver of this gift included a message regarding the difficult year it had been, and a comment from an article she read in The New York Times about “languishing.” One of the suggestions included in the […]
Pastoral Care Musings
What images come to mind when considering the word “pastoral?” Perhaps you hear strains of violins as you recall Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (Pastoral), or maybe you envision a painting such as George Inness’s Pastoral Scene, which features cattle grazing by the riverside juxtaposed with a verdant tree with a branch stripped bare. For many, the […]