Posts from May 2023
Summer News
First Church Family: Summer is upon us! The Old Farmer’s Almanac guided both sets of my grandparents in many ways, including providing dates for planting their spring and summer gardens. Always would they make their first planting of the year on Good Friday (regardless of the exact date) and never would they set out vegetable plants on what they called: “rotten Saturday” (the day before Easter.) About the summer, the Almanac records: “The beginning of the season depends on whether…
A Transformed Day
First Church Family: I pray that you are well. I heard a devotion this morning about the fact that we all will have to endure suffering for one reason or another, because, like it or not, it is part of life. And that the antidote to allowing it to defeat us is to love one another. I have to say that the devotion transformed my day! If you weren’t able to be with us on Sunday for Confirmation, please…
A Prayer for Calm
First Church Family: The warmth of spring is finally here! Gardeners can put annual plants in the ground and not worry about the threat of frost (though that pronouncement probably will encourage the weather patterns to change – Ha!) May is second only to December in its busyness. There are concerts, exams, preschool and school endings, high school and college graduations, weddings…the list goes on and on. When there is something almost every night of the week, it’s hard not…