Yesterday at Annual Conference, the appointments for the next year were set. For the first time in 22 years, I was not reappointed to be the pastor at Wedgewood UMC. Rev Joe Burkhardt is the new pastor and will take over at the church on July 1. The baton was passed, so to speak. I’ve …
From June 2014
Retirement Ceremony
Last night was the official church retirement ceremony. At the ceremony, I got a certificate signed by the Bishop that says I am a clergy member in good standing, retired. I guess it’s official, even though I still have 13 days to go and a lot of things to finish when I get home from …
Knitted Socks
I love to knit. The first blog I read regularly was The Yarn Harlot. Money spent on yarn is always money well spent! Yarn does not count as stuff (see previous post on Rummage Sale Stuff). One of the best take-along knitting projects is knitted socks. They are small, require lots of stitches so you …
Rummage Sale Stuff
Stuff: matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied. Easy to have too much of it. Americans spend lots of money getting more of it and then spend money to have enough room for it. The actual name is Trash and Treasure, but my …
A Wilder Rose
Little House on the Prairie is one of the few television shows that I can remember everyone in my family gathering around the television to watch. We looked forward to it every week and would talk about the (obvious) lessons learned around the dinner table. The Ingalls family became as well known to us as …
Lemonade Philanthropists
Today when I was driving home from work, I saw two young girls sitting at a lemonade stand. The stand was just down the street from The Willows, so I pulled in to the trailer, put a couple of dollars in my pocket and walked back to the stand. They had just finished selling the …
Burned Rice
I want to be perfectly clear about this – I CAN cook. I just don’t. At least not very often. With just two of us in the house, and not usually in the house at the same time, I eat lots of sandwiches. And when we are both home for supper it is such an …
Holy Spirit Bubbles
Yesterday was Pentecost. Pentecost is 50 days after Easter. The Bible tells us that, on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and they went out boldly to preach Jesus to anyone who would listen. They were able to let go of the fear that kept them locked in an upper room, and speak …
I Forgot to Remember
My wonderful, fit, and very active sister had a stroke when she was 35. Thankfully she recovered, but she still has occasional memory issues and doesn’t like big crowds with lots of noise. A good friend got a concussion 15 years ago when she fell and still has short term memory loss. I have seen …
One Mile Away
Living at the Willows in our RV, Tom and I are 1.2 miles away from where we lived for 25 years. It doesn’t sound like much, but it could be halfway across the US, considering how unfamiliar we are with the neighborhood. Our new location is in Springfield Township instead of in Mogadore. We …