I’m not great at asking for help. It's a place I hate to find myself. Needing help and needing to ask for it, and feeling so much shame and embarrassment about it that I just don't, and when i finally do, finding myself feeling like I'm a shitty excuse for a human being for not…
The Art of Waiting, Revisited
I once preached a sermon titled “The art of Waiting.” We were waiting, as a congregation, for the closing date on our new church building. It had been pushed back for the third time, and we were all getting tired of waiting to move. We wanted our own space. NEEDED our own space. We’d grown…
Bring it to You…
It's no secret that I love being in the UUCV Choir. And it's no secret that songs get stuck in my head. Happens all the time.....but sometimes, songs get stuck there for a reason. I haven't been able to get our latest choir piece [we'll be singing it this Sunday in church if anyone is…
Of “Crash Helmets” and “Trigger Warnings”
*I feel like today's post needs a disclaimer. Yes, it's long. Yes, it's very, very personal. No, it doesn't come to any neatly packaged conclusions. It's been a very, very rough day today, and I'm still working through it. But my hope is that someone else might stumble across this in the future and find…
What Do I Know?
“I have a friend who just turned 88, and she confessed to me that she’s afraid of dying I sit here years from her experience and try to bring her comfort I try to bring her comfort But what do I know? Really, what do I know? Well, I don’t know if there are harps…
The Right to Speak
Normally, I don’t have a problem sharing my thoughts. Writing comes easily to me, and, as any of my friends would be quick to tell you, I have an opinion about everything. Everything. But I’ve found myself struggling this week with feeling silenced. I’ve felt this way before, when something I’ve said, or some opinion…
Finding peace in the storm
In case you hadn’t heard by now, we had an historic blizzard this past weekend here in PA. More than three feet of snow fell in Carlisle, trapping us all in our houses and shutting down literally everything – even the post office [which, for my foreign readers, is a very, VERY big deal here…
Rite of Passage
Life is full of moments. Most pass by with little thought given to them, but others – other moments are burned into our minds as snapshots of time we can never forget. We hold them up as Defining Moments in our lives – moments we can point to and say, “there. Then. That’s when I…
The Bravery of Returning
ll: Return again/ return again/ return to the home of your soul :ll ll: Return to who you are/return to what you are/ return to where you are born and reborn again :ll Return again. We sang this in church the week before this past Sunday, and I can’t seem to get it out of…
[not]Broken
“You are not broken! Nothing about you is broken. There are lessons to learn so you can become the best version of yourself possible, but YOU ARE NOT BROKEN. There is nothing to fix.” I nearly choked on my crepe. Thank heavens the restaurant was closing soon, and there was hardly anyone around, because tears…
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