December 24, 2021 Carol Brennan King First, we have had our vaccine shots, all three of them. Secondly, the news is full of notes about how this thing, this virus, is way worse for those who have underlying conditions, like respiratory or autoimmune disorders, and more. But those two affect my family. So how do…Read more Covid and Me…and God: “Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
Meditations
I have the practice of reading my Bible daily using a plan that will take me through the Bible in a year. But I read a lot more of the Bible than the approximately three chapters a day it takes to complete a trip through the Bible in a year. And I read lots of other things that cause me to pause and cogitate over the words just read. Sometimes I just have to write, to think the words or thoughts through on paper, to figure out what they say and mean to me, and maybe to someone else.
Those thoughts show up in MEDITATIONS. And, periodically when I houseclean my Blog entries, lots of them will end up stored back here.
Notes on my Bulletin Sunday Dec. 19, 2021
Carol Brennan King Some thoughts that came to me in church: about prayer: Would you want to talk about someone about your prayer life? Well, sometimes I get excited about what I am learning, and I want to talk to people about it, to see if everybody else already knew this. Or maybe to have…Read more Notes on my Bulletin Sunday Dec. 19, 2021
It’s not so easy to “just forget it” and maybe that’s bad advice!
Personal hurts and wounds surely don't fit into the parameters we are to think on. I have those words on little piece of paper on my computer screen at my desk because like you, I have moments when I need to do a thought check.
Happy New Year!
the list is long of people we have worked with and loved who have passed from this life to the next due to covid. And you know what has helped me the most? The assuredness, the confidence that though they closed their eyes here on earth, they opened them in heaven.
Digesting the Quarantine or Making Sense of the Quarantine
I have trouble praying that God would end the pandemic and end the political mess.
Listening to My Body 9/24/2020
Carol Brennan King An essay for a class I am taking: I lean into the room to hear, to find sounds to write about, but all I hear is the sound of air being sucked through a small floor fan then pushed through the room toward the dehumidifier. Ostensibly, they work together to circulate the…Read more Listening to My Body 9/24/2020
My Foot Hurts and My Heart
Why offend someone even before they have an opportunity to meet our loving God?
Hymns are Never Sung Alone
It came to me that we were with a chorus of believers singing through history, from what I thought then was the late nineteenth century, based on the language of the hymn.
A Meditation: on Prayer July 2, 2020
I find this useful as a guide to help me pray, especially when I need God's help. Or honestly, a way to get started when my mind is full of distractions.
The Blessing That Came To Me
by Carol Brennan King June 19, 2020 I have been taking a Meditation and Writing Class this week and today the prompt was this: The ---------that came to me: The teacher said just fill it in anyway that makes sense for you. Perhaps words like person, idea, blessing....and honestly, I don't know what came after…Read more The Blessing That Came To Me