Reflections through a Lens of Faith from Pastor Jen
An episode of the radio show “On Point” with Meghna Charkabarti caught my ear this week. The title of the show was “The Mutual Benefits of Kindness,” and Charkabarti interviewed Christine Sheil, a woman who spoke about her volunteer work at a Veterans’ retirement home. Every month she visits, plays the piano, and sings with […]
The old wisdom was that we cannot control our feelings – we can only control our response to our feelings. We can’t control whether we become angry, scared, sad or happy – but we can control how we respond to those emotions. That was the old wisdom. Recent research suggests that we may have been
When I was diagnosed with COVID earlier this year (a reminder that I was fortunate in that I never had any symptoms), I stocked up on tylenol and Vitamin D, I bought a thermometer, I set up a living space apart from the rest of my family, and… I wrote a will. I guess it
Today is a day of commemoration. Six years ago, on June 17, 2015, Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Lee Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and Myra Thompson were murdered by a self-professed white supremacist while they were gathered for Bible study and prayer at the
The dragon was our nemesis. A couple of weeks ago I went questing at Boda Borg in Malden. If you have no idea what I mean by that sentence, “questing,” is a live gaming experience where teams of people complete physical and mental challenges. Successful completion of the challenge allows entry into the next. Failure