Most Recent Deaconed Blog Posts

• Seven times seventy times
  Raise your hand if you have never asked that question? How many times are we supposed to forgive someone? And if we cannot remember asking that ourselves, how many times have we been asked that question by others? There is no need to paint the entire scenario, but it usually ends with a tear-stained face, ...
• Our 5 year old selves
  Remember when you were five … well maybe not, but think back to the last 5-year-old that you have met and think about one of the most important things about being 5, it was wanting with all of your might to be 6. It was so important that we were older that we would count ...
• Forsaking all else
  Do you remember the phrase, “and forsaking all else”? It came to me while reading today’s scripture and I was thinking of Matthew chapter 13, verse 44 – 46. The story of the “pearl of great price”. The passage goes like this, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. ...
• Conundrum of Conscience
  Have you ever been caught in a situation where you could not decide what was the right things to do? What is the expression, “Dammed if you do, or dammed if you don’t”? Last week I was in a conversation that involved the question of what to do when a street person asks you for ...
• Kateri Tekakwitha
  How many of us here are saints? Or, perhaps a better question, is how many of us here are going to be saints? When we talk about saints what are the first things that come to mind? Old? Holy? Boring? How about “guys that lived a long time ago”? Would it surprise you to know ...