Blessed Minds: Neurodiversity
I’m overjoyed to share with you my new book, Blessed Minds: Breaking the Silence About Neurodiversity. This book is a joyful exploration and celebration of the diversity of the human mind. Made in God’s image, people with brain differences are blessed. Filled with stories of hope, I pray this book will be a blessing. Today…
Love is Born Again
The red, green, and white holiday stocking hanging by the Christmas tree has two more days left: the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth. Each morning (when I remember) I place a star in a little pocket behind each number, starting at one and going all the way to twenty-four. Today is day twenty-two. This simple ritual…
Rosalynn’s Power
Her power was not only her southern charm and beauty. Her power was not only her faithful honoring of marriage vows and devoted life as a wife. Her power was not only her nurturing mothering and generous love of family. Her power was not only her compassionate heart and keen listening skills. Her power was…
Pray, Play, Pause
We don’t talk enough in the church about this, but the most important charge I can give to you as a pastor is to put your own spiritual life first. Make tending to your spirit your highest priority in ministry. As strange as it may sound, for pastors to make time to tend our souls…
Sabbatical Joy Part II: Rhythms of Joy
In the first part of this series of reflections about our congregation’s sabbatical theme “Joy to the World,” we reflected on “heaven and nature sing.” Joy is an original gift from our Creator. If the sound of wind dancing through the branches of the palm trees is a sound of joy, what, then, is the…
Sabbatical Joy Part I: Heaven and Nature Sing
Yesterday my husband Jonathan and I celebrated our seventeenth wedding anniversary. We are grateful to still be together. Ever since we met one of the things we most enjoy is going on adventures. We met 20 years ago in Minneapolis and in our first two years together we explored Lake Superior, made a road trip…
Sick Pastors
Calling in sick on a Sunday morning isn’t for the faint of heart, especially when the sickness is mental. It takes courage for preachers to admit to themselves and to others that they are not up to the task of sharing the good news. It takes grace for a church to accept that their pastor…
Blessed is the Church
One aspect about myself as a pastor that I cannot change is being human. Though I think about God and share teachings about God, I am not a god. In my two decades as a professional clergy person, I’ve observed that we clergy don’t give ourselves enough grace when it comes to being human, the…
Blessed Yes
Joy is seeing your good friend say “yes” to the dress and know how much hope echoes in each of the of yeses that led to the dress. Wedding dress shopping is an American rite of passage for many women and inspired a hit television reality show, “Say Yes to the Dress.” Another common rite…
Blessed are the Chaplains
You know the saying that cracks are places where the light comes in? But what happens when we are in the crack of pain, fear, and confusion and there’s no light shining in? This past August, as I sat with the news about a possible ovarian cancer diagnosis, I was lost for a moment in…
Blessed Love
Date night with my husband of 16 years this time was extra special. Live music in the park near our home, so close we decided to walk. A beautiful, balmy summer night. I held in my heart a new appreciation of life since hearing the possibility of an ovarian cancer diagnosis up ahead. That night…
Blessed Life
The week after my speech at the Indiana State House in support of reproductive rights at the end of July, I landed in the emergency room with symptoms of severe abdominal pain. The ER doctor referred me to my gynecologist, who then referred me to a specialist for advanced imaging, who then referred me to…
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Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 