All Meditations
Loaves and Fishes
posted on Aug 14, 2015Jesus was accosted by the crowds. Once they realized that he could cure diseases and heal the sick, that was it. They would not leave him alone. He was forever trying to find time alone or time with his disciples. In today's gospel, he climbs a mo...
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Don't Kill John the Baptist
posted on Jul 12, 2015Jessie was four years old when a little bird flew into the glass picture window while she was eating breakfast in her kitchen. The little bird was killed instantly. Jessie was very sad and cried a lot. It was the first time that she had seen anyth...
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Unbelief
posted on Jul 5, 2015Jesus goes first to Nazareth. After he has been baptized, after he fully realizes what God has called him to do, he takes the message home. It is the first place he goes...Nazareth. Of course he goes there first! If you discovered that you had the...
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Unanswered Questions
posted on Jun 23, 2015In 1813, Morris Brown started a church for black slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. He was joined by Denmark Vesey, a man whose name came from the slave owner who sold him. Denmark had purchased his freedom for $1,500 because he was a gifted ca...
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Remembering Bernie
posted on Jun 11, 2015I have never done this before. Never, in all my years, has anyone requested that their funeral be held on Sunday morning at our normal service. And really, this is not a funeral. Father Bernie Dooly didn't want a funeral at all. He wanted us to wo...
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Jump
posted on May 31, 2015Anna was three. She loved to jump on the bed and into her daddy's arms. She would jump on the bed, higher, higher, warming up. And then she would start telling her dad what to do."Take a step back, Daddy! Another one...another one!""Is this far en...
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Leaving
posted on May 30, 2015So I heard a joke this week. There is this young man ushering in church on a Sunday morning and a very elegant older woman walks in. The young man hands her a program and kindly asks her where she would like to sit. "Up front, sir." She says with ...
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Friend
posted on May 25, 2015My cousin Edward had not just one but two imaginary friends. Their names were strange, names he heard somewhere. One of them was called Humid. I think he heard that name on the radio. The other's name was Buttergy. Humid and Buttergy.The great thi...
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Understanding Pruning
posted on May 12, 2015Most all of us who are old enough to remember September 11, 2001 remember exactly where we were when the planes hit those twin towers. A friend of mine was speaking in West Virginia. He had just turned on the news in his hotel room when the first ...
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A Visit to Wyoming
posted on May 1, 2015I am seated in a small airplane, coasting above the sparce clouds on a windy day. We have just taken off from Casper, Wyoming and the vast expanse of brown and green land lies beneath us, just visible between the clouds.I came to Wyoming to preach...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels