At my church we’re between ministers. Our previous minister moved back east last month, and our new one won’t arrive until August. To fill in the gaps, some of our congregants have been standing in. Below is a sermon I conducted on Sunday, July 24th, 2016. It was a twenty minute sermon, so it’s longer […]
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What I Believe: Unitarian Universalism
In my previous post I put a copy of a sermon I did on Sunday. A couple of people were not familiar with Unitarian Universalism and I said I should post about it again. Well, I’m being lazy today so instead of typing a new one, I’m reblogging the previous post I did a few […]
You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Wow what a difference a few years makes. When I started this blog in 2008 I was a mess. During that time I could not talk in a complete sentence. I would start a sentence and midway through I would draw a blank and have no idea what I was going to say. I would freeze for a […]
I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just a Little Unwell
The title of this post is from the song Unwell by Matchbox twenty. I used that line as the title of the sermon I will be doing at church on the 21st. I had written most of the sermon when I first listened to this song. I had heard it many times before, but never […]
Impending Doom
I worry. I fret, I fear, I agonize, I stress, and I get anxious. For the last several days, however, I’ve been dealing with something I’ve never felt before – impending doom. I don’t know where’s it’s coming from. I don’t know why I’m feeling it. But it’s there, looming over me ready to strike. […]
Why I’m a UU
Since the shooting at the Unitarian church in Knoxville on Sunday that killed 2 and injured others, I’ve been pondering why I’m a Unitarian Universalist. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be preachy, and I’m not trying to convert anyone. If we were a preachy bunch we’d have grown a lot larger in the 500 […]
Breathless
Take A 290 pound man A campground with lots of steps, and rough up and down pathways. Drive from to sea level to 6800 feet (2072m) in less than 3 hours What do you get? A man who is breathless. This is the third year I’ve gone on this church retreat. The first year I […]
How Was Bradley Part III
I started this 3 part series it was because I was reminiscing how far I’d come in the past couple of years. Everything in parts 1 and 2 were leads to this post, which is most of what I was pondering the other day. Before losing my job I began having seizures and the vertigo. […]
I Feel Great..Zzzzzzzzz
Like anyone in life, somedays I seem like a complete genius and other days I seem like a complete idiot. Since I’ve been running on three hours of sleep I’m sure you can imagine what I’m looking like these days. I’m happy to say I did not wake up this morning at 3am, but the […]
I’m a He/She and I’m Proud of it
Saturday I was walking to the mailbox when I overheard a woman telling a story to her daughter. I’ll paraphrase the conversation: Mother: …so she said she was going to take her wife to Catalina for the weekend. Daughter: That’s really nice of her. Mother: (giggling) Did you not hear me? I said she is […]