Cogitation 16 Friday 17 April 2020 Many kitchens are getting a workout during this time when life centers on staying at home, working from home, only going out for essential travel or getting groceries and medications, and safe-distance exercising--all for our own health and the health of others as we join virtual hands around the … Continue reading GoBAKEnCOOK
Author: John Bender
Traveling mercies
Cogitation 15 Friday 10 April 2020 Guardian angels working overtime, thoughts and prayers of family and friends, the second-mile efforts of transport people on the ground and in the air, a paper clip, and Dvorak's Symphony No 9 got us home to the USA from the United Kingdom on Sunday and Monday, 5 and 6 … Continue reading Traveling mercies
Waiting
Cogitation 14 Friday 3 April 2020 By definition, waiting means staying in one place in expectation of something. What Marty and I have been waiting for is about to happen. We're booked to travel from the UK to the US on Sunday and Monday, April 5 and 6. In hope and prayer, we await travel … Continue reading Waiting
Across time and space
Cogitation 13 Saturday 28 March 2020 Individuals, families, communities and nations around the world are faced with battling Covid-19. We look for answers, relief, reprieve. We look for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. My spirit was lifted this week in hearing our friend Ellen Kraybill playing and singing online a hymn whose refrain is, "Healer … Continue reading Across time and space
Fitting wobbly weeks together
Cogitation 12 Saturday 21 March 2020 Last week, this week, next week, people around the world are focused on combating the coronavirus-caused illness, Covid-19. It's an unsettling time, disruptive, risk to life and livelihood. During the week UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced that "Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with … Continue reading Fitting wobbly weeks together
Go volunteers!
Saturday 14 March 2020 Cogitation 11 Lay volunteers in Church of England congregations across the Diocese of Truro in Cornwall are annually recognized for outstanding service with the Cross of St Piran. On 7 March, we attended the first of two Cross of St Piran Thanksgiving Services, where, in the 3:30 service, 10 individuals received … Continue reading Go volunteers!
Big wellies to fill
Saturday 7 March 2020 Cogitation 10 Loving and caring for the world we live in seems nigh hopeless. Still, for me, it's utterly doable. My motivation to love and care comes from the Christian perspective of creation. It's God's world. God's gift. God's desire that we live joyfully, gently, co-creatively on the earth. For that … Continue reading Big wellies to fill
It’s the weather, right?
29 February 2020 Cogitation 9 First off, if today is your birthday, Happy Leap Day Birthday! Imagine, 29 February created long ago just for you. I trust you've found old and new ways to make the most of your youthful years. Here's a Cornish language happy birthday greeting: Penn-bloedh lowen! Go 29! Featured image: Visiting … Continue reading It’s the weather, right?
Goodbye, coal and wood
2/22/2020 Cogitation 8 Air pollution, estimated to cause 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, is coming in for mitigation in a crackdown on wood burners. News reports on Friday revealed the UK government is banning the sale of bagged coal and wet (unseasoned) wood for domestic use effective February 2021, with a prohibition … Continue reading Goodbye, coal and wood
Ready, Set, Wait . . .
Saturday 15 February 2020 Cornwall Cogitation 7 To leap across the pond takes some doing. Monday, the day before our departure from Elkhart County, Indiana to Cornwall County, England, I made coffee and sat down to finish the last chapters of a Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Die Laughing, by Carola Dunn. It's the first of Dunn's … Continue reading Ready, Set, Wait . . .
