Friday, 10 September 2010, 05:38 am PDT
Featured Ministers
Admitting to God, to ourselves...
and to another person the exact nature of our wrongs is something a lot of folks think is unwise, probably unnecessary, and too guilt-ridden to be an effective way of dealing with errors we've mad... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
We saw it along the roadside...
as we rounded the bend, going toward my driveway. At first I wasn't sure how big it was, its splayed legs leaning against the raised curb, its eyes silvery in the headlights, and I was afraid it ... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
In a slump....
when it comes to blogging. I just can't get inspired by much of anything right now. I'm in the throes of planning for the new church year, which means meetings (covenant of right relations, sci... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
A comment on the Animal Blessing service...
from the owner of one of the blessees. We want to thank you for your blessing our Charlie. She is one changed dog-well, she is trying to be. She still struggles with the principle of respect a... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
The Blessing of the Animals: an intergenerational service
ALL GOD’S CRITTERS…By Rev. Kit Ketcham, Aug. 22, 2010 We’re gonna sing this song at the end of the service, but let’s practice the chorus of it right now, okay? “All God’s critter... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Stopping the itch of bug bites
Okay, this is not exactly Ladies Home Journal or Martha Stewart's Whole Living, but I have recently been dealing with a small matter of fleas on Max. I had been wondering why I would occasionally... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Donate in Mama Jo's name
Mama Jo's a friend of mine, a seminarian, a longtime UU, and a fellow blogger. She's shaving her head in sympathy with the many children in her life who have cancer and have lost their hair. He... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Why do I live?
It's taken me awhile to get motivated to answer this question for the Salon, but reading Earthbound Spirit's take on it has done just that. Thank you, my cyberfriend! Right now my congregation a... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
GRRRRRRR ATTITUDE
Argggh! And that's not a pirate you're listening to, it's me, peeved. (and then grateful)Here's the deal. I have had cataract surgery scheduled for August 25 for months, with a pre-op appoin... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
A picture of the congregation to which the following sermon was preached this morning!
After the service this morning, we took a picture of the congregation to send to our friends Baird and Peggy, as Baird is not well enough to come to church. [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Nature: Spirit Made Visible
NATURE: SPIRIT MADE VISIBLEBy Rev. Kit Ketcham, August 8, 2010 I’ve been reading through my old journals recently, dating back to the years before I began to study for the ministry. I’ve b... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Rethinking the future
We are bombarded with messages about living long, strong lives, protecting our health and vitality, our reproductive abilities, extending our lives beyond our 80th year, and finding cures for letha... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Reading my old journals...
has been quite an interesting look back at the person I used to be compared to the person I am now. I've kept a journal for much of my adult life, starting over 30 years ago when I was struggling... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
One of the things...
ministers dread, and nearly all of us have to cope with at one time or another, is a string of deaths in the congregation within a relatively short period of time. It's hard on our psychic energy... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
A friend sent me this article which...
I think is profoundly true and says a great deal about friendship and differences between males and females. Friendship ... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
It seemed like such a small, minor sin...
but as I turned right into the ferry line, against the expressed prohibition of such an act posted prominently at the intersection, I felt a terrific pang of guilt. There was nobody in the ferry l... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
"What must I do to be saved?"...
is one of the major theological questions of religious life, though it may be stated differently from tradition to tradition. In UUism, of course, the quick rejoinder is often "Saved from wh... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Liberal Values, Conservative Communities
I consider it a lucky thing, a useful thing, a benefit to have been born and raised in a Baptist preacher's family, growing up with the stories of Jesus and the Old Testament prophets, thinking ho... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
One Hell of a Woman
She looked like a waxen doll, curled up in the big, padded recliner that had been her nest for many days and weeks over the past seven years. Her hands were cold; her wavy, short-cropped hair (her... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
The Wedding Season...
can be a lot of fun, but there's angst as well to be found for a clergyperson who is charged with helping couples prepare for their marriage ceremonies, a time when the meaning of marriage, the ch... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Wow!
Am I ever feeling better! Yesterday I felt so dragged out by the demands of the previous week! I succumbed to the lure of a vanilla latte and a peach scone over at the Lighthouse Cafe, perked ... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
A latte and a peach scone always help...
me rebound when I'm extra tired, but the remedy hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling the effects of a long church year, a year which got particularly stressful in its final 6 weeks or so. Actua... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Requiem for a Soldier
Saturday afternoon was the culmination of five weeks of sorrow and preparation for saying a ritual goodbye to a young man who died in May of his battle wounds, the final wound self-inflicted. It h... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Thinking about anger and pain...
after reading a small book entitled "Healing Back Pain: the Mind-Body Connection", by John Sarno, MD. After I had complained a few times on Facebook about the muscle spasms that pla... [read more]