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Pastors Pondering – Spring Has Sprung

May 5, 2022

Annual Conference, gratitude, Mother's Day, spring has sprung

Dear Glen Mar friends, Spring has sprung here at Glen Mar church as this Sunday we prepare to honor our graduates, celebrate the love of God so often revealed in mothers for Mother’s Day, and explore The Gift of Gratitude! You will not want to miss it. I also celebrate with joy the birth of a new baby son to…

Pastors Pondering – Breakfast with Jesus, Lunch with the Pastors

April 28, 2022

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Breakfast with Jesus, Easter, lunch with the pastors, Pentecost

Dear Glen Mar friends, Easter is not just a day, it’s a whole season….50 days to cover Easter Day to Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. 50 days that the disciples got to spend in that liminal space with an empty tomb and a risen Lord on the loose. 50 days to do resurrection breathing exercises and to…

Pastors Pondering – The Great Three Days

April 14, 2022

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Easter, Easter Sunrise, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday

Dear Glen Mar friends, I hope you will join us for the services that will bring Holy Week to a meaningful and world-changing close. The “Great 3 Days” (Triduum) starts on Maundy Thursday with our 7 pm service of Holy Communion and continues for our Good Friday service at 7 pm on Friday evening (both will be livestreamed) and then…

Pastors Pondering – Opening Day

April 7, 2022

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Betsy Bucks, Easter, Easter Sunrise, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

Dear Glen Mar friends,
I hate that baseball’s Opening Day was delayed, because I love baseball…but the delay has put Opening Day closer to Easter…and for some reason to me baseball, spring and Easter are connected. The turning of the seasons to spring—new life, flowers, and that bright green of grass in ballparks–fills me with joy and hope.

Pastors Pondering – Time is on the Side of Spring

March 25, 2022

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Dear Glen Mar friends,
When I go for walks around my neighborhood, I am so thrilled to see the signs of spring on its way. Random clusters of daffodils, defiant throaty morning songbirds, the modest beginnings of the early bloomers—forsythia, Bradford pear.

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