July 2024

July 7, 2024. Texts: Ezekiel 2:1-5; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13. We went to the mainland in our little Ford Ranger truck which is approaching a significant birthday. The one where you qualify for a special license plate. The truck, a relic from the town of Friday Harbor’s maintenance fleet has low miles. But things […]

June 30, 2024. Texts: Lamentations 3:22-33; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43. On the other side was some really weird stuff. Actually, just getting to the other side was an adventure. That was last week’s story when Jesus and the Twelve took a boat into a testing storm, emerging safely from it more as a result

June 23, 2024. Texts: Job 38:1-11; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41. Around this time of year, graduation happens. Friends who have accompanied one another for years, in some cases since preschool, plan futures that will send them many directions. What makes them friends is a strange and sometimes weird alchemy. Full of promise, joy, and

June 16, 2024. Texts: Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 [11-13] 14-17; Mark 4:26-34. This is the season for allergies. Seems a little worse this year. Is it my imagination, or has it been windier than usual for June? All those little bits of organic matter carried on the wind play havoc with us and what

June 9, 2023. Texts: Genesis 3:8-15; 2 Corinthians 4:13 – 5:1; Mark 3:20-35. The snake had always been in the garden. That’s important to know. It was not some alien being that made its way in to wreak havoc after the garden had been populated. Not only that, but it’s possible that the serpent had