FROM THE PASTOR – FEBRUARY 2022
The ‘New’ CtK is Being Created!! ‘So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!’ – 1 Corinthians 5:17 These are the words written to the church in Corinth nearly 2,000 years ago, as they were in the midst of transition too! And […]
FROM THE PASTOR – JANUARY 2022
Welcome to 2022, the Year of . . . ??? Happy New Year!!! We made it through another year! And we wish each other well as we begin anew this next leg of our life journey! What will 2022 be the year of?!? According to the Chinese zodiac tradition, 2022 is the year of the […]
FROM THE PASTOR – DECEMBER 2021
The Longest Night Many years ago, not long into my first year of seminary, I stepped into a deep pit of despair. I was surrounded, suffocating really, within and without, by a thick cloud of darkness. I felt isolated, alone, abandoned even. I was grieving, both for all that had been that I had […]
FROM THE PASTOR – NOVEMBER 2021
What IF . . . ? . . . EVERYTHING is a Gift, and We practice Receiving, Giving Thanks, and Generously Sharing Our multitude of gifts?? What might be possible in and through the dear, gifted ones of CtK?? In […]
From the Pastor – October 2021
THE GIFT What if everything is a GIFT??? BOTH the things we like, that are enjoyable and pleasing to us, that we might call ‘good,’ AND the things we don’t like, that are hard and painful and unpleasant, that we might call ‘bad.’ There was once a couple- two souls very […]
FROM THE PASTOR – SEPTEMBER 2021
A Church Divided You may have heard Jesus’ saying in Matthew 12:25: “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.” This was true 2,000 years ago. And this remains true today. CtK is a divided congregation. Not because people don’t always agree. Not […]
FROM THE PASTOR – AUGUST 2021
What do you notice?? We’ve been practicing together for several months, breathing in Love & breathing out Love! As you practice showing up in the moment, breathing in and out Love, doing the work of responding to whatever is present with the greatest Love you can, WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?? What do you notice in […]
FROM THE PASTOR – JULY 2021
Where are we headed?? Are we there yet?? Great questions!! Remember, we’ve left the land of Egypt (the way things used to be), we’re journeying through the wilderness (the in-between), on our way to the Promised Land (the new life we are creating together that Spirit is calling and leading us to)! Are we there […]
FROM THE PASTOR – JUNE 2021
Practicing in the In-Between Ok, so here we are . . . the Wilderness . . . the In-Between. The newness is wearing off, the energy dissipating. The dust is settling from all the initial excitement. ‘What was’ is farther in the rear-view mirror, and ‘what is to come’ has not yet come into focus […]
FROM THE PASTOR MAY 2021
The In-Between Welcome to the Wilderness! The space in between – in between what was and what is to come. You’ve left the familiarity of Egypt (to use the Exodus metaphor) – the last many years together with Pastor Matthew. And the new life of the yet-to-be-known Promised Land, with the next called, […]