Tag: Messiah Church

• Remember Me?

  Eight months ago I stopped publishing my blog every week. Now I post an entry sporadically, averaging about one a month. The one thing I’ve been consistent about is always publishing on Tuesday morning. Today that tradition ends, too. It’s Friday. Specifically, it’s Good Friday, and there’s something on my mind that I want to…

  Marian

  April 14, 2017

  Celebrations, God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Lent, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  criminal request, Dane County Jail, Good Friday, Good Friday devotion, Holy Week, important in God’s eyes, important to God, jail ministry, Jesus remember me, Lenten Devotion, Lenten Devotional booklet, Messiah Church, Messiah Lutheran Church

• I Planned and God Laughed

  

  Thursday was just one of those days. I usually try to go to church to practice the organ for a couple hours about 9:00 every Thursday morning. Last Thursday I was running behind schedule because of being away at Christmas Mountain for a 3-day getaway earlier in the week, and I didn’t have any music…

  Marian

  April 19, 2016

  Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  Angelo’s, blueberries, Christmas Mountain, Costco, God’s plans, iPhone, Italian restaurant, lost phone, Messiah Church, Messiah Lutheran Church, Metro Market, my plans, organ practice, practice the organ, Prius, US Cellular, whittlers, whittling, wood carving

• Amen, Papa, Amen.

  

  My mom used to tell the story about one of her best childhood friends, Ruth Eckblad. Ruth’s father was pastor of the Willerup Methodist Church in Cambridge, Wisconsin for a few years in the early 1900s. One day when Ruth was a little girl, she got tired of sitting in church and being quiet for…

  Marian

  December 29, 2015

  Blogs, Book Recommendations, God’s Love, Music, Reflections

  Amen, Amen Papa, benediction, blessing, family expression, Jeff VandenHeuvel, May God go before you, Meditations on 366 best loved hymns, Messiah Church, Messiah Lutheran Church, Near to the Heart of God, New Year’s blessing, Papa, Pastor Jeff, Robert J Morgan, Ruth Eckblad, special words for 2016, The Lord bless you and keep you, Willerup Methodist Church

• Imagine you have just been arrested! Now what?

  Imagine you have just been arrested – for a crime that you may or may not have committed. Your life has suddenly been put on hold – for who knows how long. You may have small children at home. Who will care for them? You may have a job. What will happen to that? Think…

  Marian

  June 3, 2014

  Jail Ministry, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  arrested, Backyard Mosaic, Backyard Mosaic Women’s Project, Chance Allies, change in my life, chapel, chaplain, concert, Dane County, Dane County Jail, David Allen, fundraiser, fundraising concerts, God’s love, humility, inmate stories, inmates, jail, jail chapel, jail ministry, Jazz for Jail, Jazz for the Jail, John Mix, Julia Weaver, life challenges, life changes, listening for God, Lucas Koehler, Lutheran Churches, Madison Area Lutheran Council, MALC, Maria’s story, Messiah Church, Messiah Lutheran Church, mistakes, pencil, silent auction, Tisha Brown, white collar crime

• My Grade on Giving up Hurry for Lent

  On Easter Abbey spent about an hour out on our deck, watching two geese float back and forth on the pond. She said to me, “Mom, did you notice that two of our geese have finally come back home? Two years ago they were here at the beginning of Lent. This year they didn’t come…

  Marian

  April 22, 2014

  Book Recommendations, Celebrations, God’s Love, Lent, Music, Reflections, Spring

  Abbey, Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life, bonfire, Easter, Easter hymn, Easter Vigil, Edward Hays, Exultet, geese, giving up hurry for Lent, God’s love, hidden joys, hurry, hurrying, Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Jesus’ rhythms of work and rest, Lent, life challenges, listening for God, love your neighbor, Messiah Church, Messiah Lutheran Church, nature, pillars of fire, Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim, reflections, spirituality, talking with God, The Good Samaritan

• My Thoughts on Last Weekend’s Big Event

  Not the Super Bowl – Church! Last week, as I was planning music for church, I read the lectionary readings for Sunday, as I usually do. I was happy to see that two of the three readings were among my favorites. The Old Testament reading was Micah 6:1-8, which ends with the well-known verse: What…

  Marian

  February 4, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  Beatitudes, Blessed are the merciful, Blessed are the poor in spirit, emptying the ocean, fairness, God’s love, how little I understand, humble, humility, kindness, know we are Christians by our love, life challenges, Lord I Want to Be a Christian, love your neighbor, Messiah Church, Micah, Pastor Jeff, plastic bucket, reflections, spirituality, St. Augustine, The Beatitudes, walk humbly with your God