Daily Connector | Literally impossible. Literally. | Dan Halterman
I read slower now. And I read as swiftly as ever. I was surprised several weeks into “lockdown” and working from (at?) home that I finish a book much slower now. I love a good book – the only kind I read. A book on my reading list is there…
Daily Connector | Boxes bring joy | Chris McCarthy
David Emch wrote in his May 12 Connector article “Most things in life make us feel more than one emotion we’re feeling in each individual moment.” On the day I signed up for the Connector, I was feeling joy. Most of us have seen a child open a new toy…
Grief
The theme of this Sunday’s service will be grief. A few years ago someone passed along the adage: “People aren’t afraid of change. They’re afraid of loss.” I’m wary of blanket statements about “people,” but that one sounds more true than not. We naturally protect what we love, which means we…
Daily Connector | My Dad Died During COVID-19 (and I couldn’t be at his burial) | Shirley Miller
In Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Traveled the first sentence is “life is hard.” Before April 20 I could count on three fingers significant “life is hard” scenarios. One left me reeling emotionally, another almost killed me, and the third left me in a spiritual abyss. In 2004, after…
Daily Connector | Blessed | Samantha Allen
I am blessed. I know, in this age of social media and shallow hashtags, that the word blessed has taken on some negative connotations recently, but I am reclaiming its beautiful, sacred applicability to my life. I am blessed in more ways than I can count – let me…
