by Rev Jenn Sacks | Nov 22, 2017 | Faith, God, Spirituality
If we’re following current news streams or social media feeds, then we’ve likely noticed that we’re in Gratitude Challenge Season. It’s presumed to be a time when we challenge ourselves to be grateful for people, places and things in our lives. Sometimes we do this...
by Rev Jenn Sacks | Oct 18, 2017 | Faith, Spirituality
Sometimes, we can’t. So we don’t. A poem about that kind of faith: “Today, I Didn’t” Today, I didn’t make the bed. And I didn’t hang up my robe. I left it crumpled on a pillow, where I tossed it on my way to the kitchen to get more coffee and reheat the leftover...
by Rev Jenn Sacks | Sep 11, 2017 | Faith, God, Spirituality
When I was younger, my father shared his memories of walking along Madison Avenue in New York City on November 22, 1963. He remembered hearing the news pour from doorways that President Kennedy had been shot and was dead. He recalled complete strangers talking and...
by Rev Jenn Sacks | Aug 10, 2017 | Faith, Spirituality
True spirituality isn’t passive. Deep, rich spiritual lives, the kind which inform all we are and all we do, require continual engagement and participation. Yet sometimes we fool ourselves into believing that we can sit around waiting for God to “do” something, or...
by Rev Jenn Sacks | Aug 3, 2017 | Faith, God, Spirituality
The spiritual life offers copious instructions on prayer. We’re told to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:16), to give thanks as we pray (John 11:42), to ask and we shall receive (Matthew 7:7), and to trust because God already knows what we want (Luke 12). Yet,...
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