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            Over the years I have learned the wisdom of “taking a break”, taking a day off and going somewhere I haven’t been in a long time or have never seen.  The object isn’t to meet up with someone, or go shopping, or sit in an audience of some kind.  The object is have a

            This past Sunday the color red was visibly present in our sanctuary as we celebrated with joy the birthing story of the church, Pentecost Sunday.  We also took the time to remember those who gave their lives in service of their country because it was also Memorial Day weekend.             This coming week is

     Memorial Day Weekend is later this week.  It is the “unofficial time of summer”, the weekend when white shoes and white clothes are “authorized”, the weekend of crowded roads leading to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and beyond to the ocean, the time to get the grill out, the weekend for the Indianapolis 500.            

            My heart is full.  I had the privilege to spend the weekend with a group of women from Greenbelt Community Church in a Women’s Retreat at the Bishop Claggett Retreat Center in Buckeystown, Maryland.  We laughed, we cried, we told stories, we listened to one another, we took time for ourselves, we spent time

   What is your fear number on a scale of 1-10?  It appears that for some of our neighbors their number is somewhere close to 93 out of that scale.  In other words, off the chart.             It is not difficult to exceed the 1-10 scale of anxiety.  There is plenty of press coverage of

It’s springtime and the bees are active.  I need to swoosh away carpenter bees when I come in and out the door and we need to pay attention to the more aggressive bees that nest in the ground. BEE alert!  It is also BEE time at Greenbelt Community Church!  Springtime usually signals Heifer Project Time

            Every Holy Week one of the services on a church’s schedule is Maundy Thursday service.  Most people know that is where we remember when Jesus ate the last meal with his disciples before his betrayal, trial, and execution.  It is the title of the day that people either don’t know or have forgotten.            

            This is one of my favorite times of the year.  It is cherry blossom time at the Tidal Basin.  On the day this meditation will be posted the cherry blossoms will be at their peak bloom.  In all likelihood we will have begun our day before dawn to walk around the trees and take