Category: Ponderings

As you read this pondering, we are headed into Advent and Christmas season. The stores have been ready for Christmas for over a month. Christmas carols have played for 3 weeks. Television ads have featured a Christmas theme since the election. Hallmark hasbeen showing Christmas movies since the end of October. Now, in the next… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings December 2024

July 2024 It was very early in the morning and the coolest part of a June day in Arizona; I was rolling the trash can to the road. My neighbor was leading her mare and foal from their stall to a large round pen so they could enjoy more space and a pile of hay.… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings

This past week I read an interesting article about religion and the Fortune 500. If you are not familiar with the Fortune 500, it is a list of the 500 more profitable corporations in the United States. Traditionally, the Fortune 500 has never spoken of religion and operated as if religion and individual affiliation was… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings – June 2024

Greetings,This month as “The Pilgrim” is going to print – I am busy getting ready for Annual Meeting and a Ecclesiastical Council for a future minister. So, I thought it would be a good time to share excepts from an article authored by penceducc and published (4-1-2024) on the Vital Signs and Statistics of the… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings – May 2024

Greetings,This month as “The Pilgrim” is going to print – I am busy getting ready for Annual Meeting and a Ecclesiastical Council for a future minister. So, I thought it would be a good time to share excepts from an article authored by penceducc and published (4-1-2024) on the Vital Signs and Statistics of the… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings May 2024

Ponderings! A message from Rev Gloria January 2024 I offer you this prayer as we begin the New Year. Blessings, Rev. Gloria

January 2024 I offer you this prayer as we begin the New Year. Happy New YearBlessings, Rev. Gloria

December 2023 Last month I wrote about gratitude and its role in our lives on the surface and our conscious awareness. I hope that you took the opportunity to discover how consciously grateful you are or are not by participating in a daily exercise of gratefulness for specific experiences and actions. This month I will… Continue reading Pastoral Ponderings

September 1st, has been designated as World Day of Prayer for Creation. It is also the beginning of the Liturgical Season of Creation (or known by some other denominations: Creation Time). During this time we acknowledge the wonderful aspects of God’s creation and as caretakers of all of creation we need improve our sense of… Continue reading Ponderings – September 2023