Youthful Focus This Sunday
June has been a month of Sundays and maybe the best is yet to be! You say, June always has Sundays. Yes, but this month has been one for the Spring Creek United Church of Christ record books. Sunday, June 7th was our first service with virtual Communion. Sunday, June 14th offered a virtual Time For Healing within the service. Sunday, June 21st we received and welcomed Paul Mollway into our membership. Sunday, June 28th will be a service for the young and young at heart — that
Spiritual Well-Being
How's your health? Taking prescriptions for a condition? Doing therapy for an injury? Taking supplements to help ease discomfort or pain? Exercising to keep the joints supple? On any given day one of my knees or the other is giving me problems. Surgery may be in my future but not this week, not this month, I hope not this year. I have compression sleeves to wear on days when one or the other is "speaking" to me and if I am on a shopping trip, I wear both just for insurance. H
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace
No, it is not. This well-known prayer cannot be found in any of the saint's writings. Nevertheless, it is a poem that especially calls us to prayer in these days. The prayer, particularly popular during both World Wars, is a part of many Twelve Step Programs. We know this prayer well through the singing of the hymn, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace. May these words be our prayer and a guide to our actions. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let m
My Friend Monica
We have all been inundated with scenes of horror this past week. Human tragedy and senseless greed, two things that should never go together, have been on our TV screens night after night. I have listened to the names of cities that have experienced demonstrations and those that have experienced lawless riots. One in particular caught my attention, Santa Monica. That name reminded me of a friend of mine. My friend, Monica, had her hands full of problems, some of them like the
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