A parade! Hurrah!

It’s been a while since we had a parade. Cooped up with COVID and winter we look forward to waving banners and laughing and singing and cheering. We long for a day of celebration. How do we encounter this day without thinking of the days ahead? How do we simply

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What is your identity?

How do we go about sharing our true identity with those around us? And once we know how to go about sharing this information how do we then be merciful to those we have assumed were our enemies? So many questions. Discovering and then living our authentic self can be

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Have you been watered sufficiently?

For a prairie girl the beatitudes upon the plain are a refreshing change from the sermon on the mount. It is good to hear about the word of God being delivered on the prairie wind, or resting on the far horizon, or calling from the clouds high above. And it

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From Bleak to Fulfilled

Our life’s journey is one filled with moments…good moments, tough moments, moments of great joy, moments of deep sorrow, sometimes all of those emotions fight for first place in any given moment. And occasionally in the midst of it all communion bursts in! Ordinarily we celebrate the sacrament in the

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What keeps us from going home?

The scriptures today call us to self-examination. What keeps us from God? What is holding us back from simply accepting the kingdom? How do we find the strength to be persistent? Looking around upon whom does your gaze fall as the person who calls you back as John the Baptist

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M&P Announcement

Please comment on this blog post below to leave a message for Rev. Leigh or e-mail mail@rwuc.org Video text is as follows: Dear friends, I’m speaking to you as Ministry and Personnel Committee chairperson. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what the M&P Committee does, it’s like the

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