Tag Archives: Beginnings

Lifewords

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Twenty four years ago this week, I was on a flight to Portland to meet up with my parents. I had words I needed to say to them for the very first time. Words that were too big for an email or a … Continue reading →

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Ready…Or Not.

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: The Layers by Stanley Kunitz In the final years of my grandmother’s life, she would often say: I’m ready.   She meant: She’d done all she was meant to do, she wanted to cross the river, as she said it.   The river Jordan, which … Continue reading →

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Where We Start From

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Part 1: Where We Start From Part 2 – Video available here Last week, when she described the difference between hospital chaplaincy and congregational ministry, Elaine said that in the hospital, you don’t really get to know people – or … Continue reading →

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The Plunge

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

When I was a kid, some of my friends had a cabin on a lake, where just off to the side there was a place you could go, and jump off the ledge into the water below.  I’d watched my friends … Continue reading →

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The Light of Morning – Easter Sermon 2016

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Here is the audio podcast of this sermon. Poetry: Maya Angelou’s On the Pulse of Morning (from the line “Lift Up Your Faces, you have a piercing need…”)  Reading: Luke 24 from the Message Bible  Imagine it with me, this … Continue reading →

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