For the fourth Sunday of Advent, the theme traditionally is Love. While it is easier to find Christmas carols for the other Sundays of Advent, namely Hope, Peace and Joy; there just are not that many Christmas carols that speak about God’s love. So I decided to write some new lyrics to an old tune. Here is one of the songs that our congregation sang on Christmas Eve morning 12/24/2023!
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April 4, 2017 Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge Inside, Outside. All around the Back Side, Front Side,Inside Out. Feelings of the Inside, expressed on the Outside. Feelings on the Inside, fear and doubt. Acting from the Inside. Reacting to the Outside. Never pausing to think, what’s life about? Changing all the inside.To effect all on the more »
If you peek around my kitchen, currently perched in a wooden basket on top of the microwave, you will find an empty mason jar. This jar has moved around the kitchen quite a lot the last few months. For a while it was sitting next to my sink, it’s clear glass catching the light and more »
For Maundy Thursday 2024, we hosted a combined worship service, collaborating with Bostwick Lake UCC and First Congregational Church of Rockford, United Church of Christ. For that service, I wrote a song, which served as the backbone of the worship experience. The idea was to highlight the steps in which a hostess prepares a table more »
I mournfully peered out of my living room window to my patch of daffodils by the sidewalk. The “daffys” were blooming with their boisterous yellow cheerfulness. They had been bringing a joyful smile to my heart every day as I anticipated the green grass and the blue skies of spring that they announce every year. more »
This is an experiment. A Lenten Experience Experiment. –Over the next 40 days of Lent, I plan to ask 40 different people the question, “What is your purpose in life?” –And then to post their answer along with their picture. Here is Day One: “To Succeed.” –Alyssa (A new friendly server at Far East Restaurant more »
Earlier in June, I was in Minneapolis and I stopped at George Floyd Square. Immediately, I recognized the Cup Foods corner market from the images on television from 2020 when the people were rioting in protest of the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a policeman. But despite the landmarks there on the more »
