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Lament Psalms

October 18, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            This past Sunday during Time With Young Disciples I talked to them about praying when you are feeling sad, or scared, or overwhelmed.  I said all they really needed to say was “Help”.  God would (and does) understand.  I also said the biblical writers had developed a way to pray in difficult times and… Read More »

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Reflecting on Violence

October 11, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            I thought this week’s meditation would be about the Central Atlantic Conference meeting scheduled for this weekend.  What is the CAC?  How is Greenbelt Community Church connected to the CAC?  What will be the themes of this year’s Annual Meeting?             And then war erupted in Israel and the Gaza Strip.  I would like… Read More »

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The Gift of Friendship

October 4, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            Today, October 4th, when this column goes out, we will conclude our Fall Book Study, Dinners With Ruth A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg.  It has been a wonderful month of fellowship and storytelling as we read this book about friendship.             In the next to last chapter, Nina Totenberg diverges from… Read More »

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World Communion Sunday

September 27, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            This Sunday is World Communion Sunday.  Instituted in the mid-1930s at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA, it was designed to open their congregation’s awareness of the peoples of the world.  The service was to challenge them to envision a table big enough to receive all who would participate in the bread and wine… Read More »

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Matthew 15:14-16

September 20, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            14-16 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket,… Read More »

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Honoring First Responders

September 13, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            As I write this the commemorations of September 11 are in progress.  Twenty-two years ago the skies were a particular brilliant blue before the first plane crash.  This morning the skies over New York and Washington and probably Shanksville happen to have clouds which give an eerie memory of smoke clouds that were also… Read More »

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On this September 11

September 6, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            There are a few events that are a part of our vivid memory for our entire life.   We know where we were.  We remember how we felt.  They shaped us.  Mine include the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jr., the planes crashing into the Twin Towers on September 11th and sadly, the events at… Read More »

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Labor Day

August 30, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            As Labor Day approaches, I often think of the legacy of Francis Perkins.  If that name is not familiar to you, I highly recommend going to https://francesperkinscenter.org/learn/her-life/,  There you will find a biographical sketch of this woman who served our country during the time of the New Deal as the first woman Secretary of Labor. … Read More »

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Play Music on the Porch Day

August 23, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

            “What if for one day, everything stopped…and we all just listened to the music?”  That is the question that shapes a worldwide celebration of “Play Music on the Porch Day”.  This is a real event that happens on the last Saturday in August in 70 countries and nearly 700 cities.  And it is going… Read More »

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Friendship

August 16, 2023 By Webmaster (MH) Leave a Comment

     Friendship has been on my mind recently.      One of my oldest friends (we have shared Thanksgivings together for the past 30+ years) let us know that, yes, they were getting a Borzoi puppy.  Trooper will join their home this month.  Can’t wait to meet him.  Ann shows Borzois and they have… Read More »

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