Friday Five: Grandmother Memories

RevGalBlogPals are taking a trip down memory lane today.  As a new grandmother, I would like to honor my own grandmothers with memories of treasured moments of grandmothers — past, present, and future. Flowers from my mother’s garden A treasured memory from childhood:We called my dad’s mother “Lollie.”  She made my sister and me matching Easter…

Teach us to pray

This was the pastoral prayer that I offered after the July 25 sermon on Luke’s report of Jesus’ teaching the “The Lord’s Prayer” to the disciples: O God, OUR God — we worship you.  You are holy.  There is no other who can claim first place in our hearts, in our lives, on our agenda.  When…

Advice from Me to Myself

Dear Self: Great Salt Lake (July 2009) Have you read your own most recent pastor article?  Why, look, it arrived at the post office just yesterday.  How timely!  Take another look at what you wrote.  Remind yourself, again, how very tempting it is to think that *everyone else* could use a holy attitude adjustment and…