Musings on Life and Ministry
Seven years ago, I started sarainrealife as an experiment in living generously. I stopped eating out, cut my grocery fund in half and lived on rice and beans type basics for one year, giving away the other half of grocery money and the funds I would have spent on eating out, to different charities each […]
MoreFrom yesterday’s speaking engagement at Central Baptist Church. Because I have “speaking engagements” now :). Taken from Psalm 71. When I was in 1st grade, while my dad was coming to get me from school, a little boy ran out in front of him to get his soccer ball. My dad was able to stop […]
MoreAsh Wednesday convicted me this year, as it does each year, that there are things in my life that separate me from God. Last year, I didn’t “give up” anything for Lent, rather, I added a daily practice of praying in color to my life, in an effort to increase my connection to God and […]
MoreRemember, you are dust and to dust you shall return. These are the words most commonly spoken at Ash Wednesday services, services of reflection and turning inward; opportunities for us to look upon our lives as finite gifts which will end one day, and to remember the dust from whence we came and to which […]
MoreI am leading today’s Bible study. We will process Las Vegas together. … An article by the Washington post defines a mass shooting as an incident in which 4 or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. This week, our country experienced an incident in which at least 59 people were killed and more […]
MoreMy desk is partially taken up by a huge notebook housing an inordinate amount of information on dementia, and care giving and dementia; and all this for just 2 classes toward my Master of Science in Aging and Dementia Studies. I am learning a lot, and really enjoying being a student again (in the technical […]
MoreI’ve always been kind of embarrassed by the fact that a single, beautiful chord can stir me to tears – pretty significant ones – and usually at least one number in a musical show will bring me pretty close to actual sobs. Usually not because it’s sad, but because at some point in every show, […]
MoreSunday’s sermon from Romans 12:9-21 and Exodus 3:1-15 We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday. This is the first verse of the gospel hymn, “We Shall Overcome,” which became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. These words were sung by […]
MoreMy morning pages today were spent penning this letter to Donald Trump. It’ll go to the mail at lunch. … Dear President Trump, My name is Sara. I’m a 34 year old associate pastor of a small church in Georgia which ministers mostly to senior adults. We have a vibrant ministry of home worship with […]
MoreToday’s sermon, from Matthew 10:41-42 One of the richest traditions I’ve been able to take part in, even in my younger days, is the rich, delicious and time-honored practice of afternoon espresso in Brazil. In Brazil, it is common practice to brew a pot of espresso – a literal pot, as in, a saucepan, of […]
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