The way I read the Parable of the Sower is how our Farmer God sows seeds of extravagant love & grace into the heart of each person.  God scatters these seeds everywhere, in places where we can’t imagine they would take root. And once the seed is planted, according to the Talmud, EVERY blade of […]

There is a story from the Washington Post about 10 years ago.  A man sat at a Metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin on a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time,  it was calculated that 1100 people went through the station. […]

Have you ever thought about where you intentionally go to meet God?  Can you remember the times or places where your spirit awakened to the presence of God perhaps more than any other time or place?  Perhaps without even knowing that you were going to have an encounter with the Holy One? We are entering […]

It used to be in the Seattle Sunday paper, there would be an article contrasting somebody’s first job experience with the  job that individual currently has.   I always like reading about people’s early experiences and where that ultimately led them.  Do you remember your first job?  (Elicit stories from congregation…) What about the first […]