Author: fumchurstblog

First United Methodist Church of Hurst is an open community of Christian disciples seeking to live out the unconditional love of God as revealed in Jesus the Christ.

Pruning in the Time of COVID-19

It is one of those things that I know is SUPPOSED to help my plants look better, but cutting them back always has seemed so sad to me.

Blessings of the Ordinary

What is the “divine possibility” that is to be found in the “ordinary” of my life these days? 

(Re) Learning How to Cook!

Now that we’ve been in quarantine for …a while, I’ve run out of options to try on the “Things To Do In Quarantine” list so I am having to spread my wings a little wider.

A Time for Everything 

Where in one day you will cry and laugh, mourn and dance, seek and lose, stay silent and speak. This is a time for everything, and we need to embrace it.

From A to Z

This week as I began my list of events, thoughts, words, and topics I noticed that many of the lines of my list began with different letters.  So this week here is my ABC blog…

The Library of Babel

So…here is the question of the day: Did I write it? Or did I find it? Technically, it pre-existed me and just waited for me to find it…right? So then God wrote it? Or was it my own reason and intellect that drove me to use tools at my disposal to uncover an uncanny coincidence?

Spring Break Connection Challenge

“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” – Mr. Fred Rogers

The Beloved Community

We live in a culture that glorifies the busy and over committed, and our youth have learned that from us.

Waiting

Lent forces us to wait, forces us to sit in the not yet.