Thoughts on Theology, Motherhood, and Life in General

P salm 130:5-6 5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6 my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays Phil, a weatherman who finds himself reliving the same day over and over and over again. I have found my corona-quarantine to be its own version of Groundhog Day. Every single day feels like a repeat of leggings and slippers, loud talking (how I have never noticed before that no one in my immediate family uses their inside voice inside our home?), Zoom meetings, cooking dinner, and walking the dogs.  Sometimes, in my own version of Groundhog Day, it feels like all I'm doing is waiting: waiting for the test results that are still pending after 8 days, waiting for the next Zoom meeting to begin, waiting for the stock market to close so my husband can walk the dogs with me, waiting for the Instacart delivery, waiting for the respons...

I re-started my blog with the best of intentions nearly two years ago, and then I got distracted by life and forgot about it. No one who knows me well is the least bit surprised by that--they'd likely be more surprised if I had continued blogging regularly. Given the current state of affairs (#quarantined) I thought I'd try blogging. Again.  This afternoon I tried writing a devotional. I've been sending the UCC Daily Devotional to my congregation every day for the last two weeks and thought my people might want to hear a word from their pastor. So here is a preview of what I will send tomorrow morning to the good folks at Pilgrim UCC. Lamentations 1:1, 4  1  How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal. 4  The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her y...